(a.) Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.
Example Sentences:
(1) After six months of sessions, when the infant manifested full-blown weaning patterns, the mother reported symptoms indicating a major depressive episode, such as pervasive dejection and rejection, listlessness, and anxiety attacks.
(2) I watched as a class of listless 10-year-olds struggled with an aimless lesson in creationism.
(3) Its findings – including evidence that the Republican nominee is making dramatic headway with female voters, young people and those in the heartlands of the mid-west – appear to confirm that Obama's listless performance at the debate, and by contrast Romney's strong showing, has translated into a powerful political force.
(4) Within 3 hours of bacterial inoculation, all lambs that received P haemolytica were anorectic, listless, and febrile, and had hyperpnea and dyspnea.
(5) Sturm, Stahl, and Heer sit a few chairs down from Zschäpe in what appears a state of permanent listlessness.
(6) But Farber's lab was listless and empty, a bare warren of chemicals and glass jars connected to the main hospital through a series of icy corridors.
(7) Bojan Krkic and Xherdan Shaqiri were substituted after strangely listless performances and there was a collective gasp from the crowd when the public announcer named Marko Arnautovic as the man of the match.
(8) "People are now lethargic and listless because of starvation.
(9) And there is nothing more elderly than listlessness and fear.
(10) Everything else is flashback, rewinding to show the drip-drip of humiliations that turn a listless pizza delivery man into a killer with nothing to lose.
(11) The second half began as a listless affair until De Bruyne took charge.
(12) Tambor’s children are self-involved, sexually confused and in the middle of various life crises, with Girls star Gaby Hoffman particularly impressive as listless youngest daughter Ali.
(13) This exploratory study, conducted among 104 male workers free from cardiovascular disease (CVD), tested the association between burnout and two of its common concomitants--tension and listlessness--and cardiovascular risk factors.
(14) In a typical outbreak, 5% of the pullets were stunted and listless with unkempt feathers.
(15) All infected pigs showed inappetence and listlessness, but there were no clinical signs of nervous disorder.
(16) There is a peculiar pridelessness in the current Britain, a listless indifference to the morals it holds and represents.
(17) About half of under-25-year-olds in the labour force are without a job, and this threatens to leave the country with a listless lost generation for whom unemployment is the norm.
(18) Clinical signs of hyperviscosity syndrome in a 6-year-old dog included listlessness, polydipsia, anorexia, vomiting, and recurrent bleeding from the gums.
(19) In Godard's film, the Concordia plays the role of a decadent limbo where the tourists drift listlessly amid the ritzy interiors.
(20) So high, in fact, that the cast appears to be suffering from altitude sickness, with characters staggering around listlessly while peering upwards, or pulling faces like geese struggling to choose between souvenir cagoules in Glen Nevis Visitor Centre.
Liveliness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
(n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
(n.) Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Example Sentences:
(1) May 28, 2014 Other players have looked livelier tonight for sure, and he's taken one too many touches on occasion, but there was a glimpse of Altidore's value in his hold up play just now.
(2) Faced with a housing market in the south-east of England that is livelier than a Brazilian beach carnival, Mr Osborne has decided to grant new powers to the Bank of England to cap mortgages, by either limiting the amount buyers can borrow compared to their income or by restricting the proportion of a house price that can be paid with a mortgage.
(3) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(4) But physical liveliness, being able to tell jokes, that is not about sexuality.
(5) Yet sometimes a little decay here and there, some graffiti, flyers posted on walls and lampposts, can add liveliness to what would otherwise be a drab urban experience.
(6) "It's reminded me of when we went to the San Siro to play AC Milan except Joe [Jordan] didn't get nutted by [Gennaro] Gattuso," he said, recalling his Tottenham days and ensuring the post-match entertainment proved livelier than the fare on the pitch.
(7) As she describes her elastic band theory, her gestures get livelier.
(8) The disorder manifests itself as the disappearance of inner liveliness and as a diffuse dissociation of the entire representional world, which I have characterized as the disappearance of psychic transparence.
(9) The patients were less sleepy, livelier and less agitated in the isoflurane group in the first hour of recovery.
(10) Live bands play regularly, and if you're in family-friendly Les Houches rather than knees-up Chamonix, you'll be thankful for a bit of liveliness.
(11) "It's like Bob Dylan's never-ending tour," I suggest, though arguably Dylan might balk at sharing a bill with ventriloquist Roger De Courcey at Aylesbury rugby club, the scene of one of Farage's livelier recent outings.
(12) By linking themselves with American social scientists such as Richard Thaler and Robert Cialdini , the Tory high command has managed to cast itself as the new home of intellectual energy in British politics – so much livelier than that sleep-deprived lot over in Downing Street.
(13) These scales were called Depression (Anxiety), Hostility, Boredom, Liveliness, Well Being, Friendliness, Concentration and Startle.
(14) Results indicate that Factor C (high ego strength), Factor F (liveliness and enthusiasm), Factor H (venturesomeness), Factor Q1 (experimenting), Factor Q3 (high self-concept integration), Factor Q4 (tenseness), Factor QII (anxiety) are significantly related to one or more index of success (satisfaction, size of practice, income and professional advancement).
(15) Variations on the theme were explored to rather livelier effect in David Cronenberg's Tinseltown satire Maps to the Stars .
(16) For many, especially among the idealists of Momentum who held their own, much livelier conference this week, Labour has to be a social movement that works to change public attitudes on migration and much else – even if that takes a generation.
(17) The immediate task for the tandem, then, is to ensure a semblance of liveliness around parliamentary elections on 4 December.
(18) The New York section will advance the movement under Thomson's guidance away from the old Wall Street Journal, a crusty financial organ, towards a livelier general interest paper.
(19) Cardinale is only in the movie for a few scenes, but she still exudes the same liveliness and warmth she did in her youth.
(20) The child's liveliness, sociability, and poor appetite during infancy and childhood were positively related to the adult Type A irritability and hurried behavior clusters, as were the mother's liveliness, orderliness, and intelligence as rated by psychologists during the child's first 6 years.