What's the difference between listless and restless?

Listless


Definition:

  • (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.

Restless


Definition:

  • (a.) Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.
  • (a.) Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects.
  • (a.) Deprived of rest or sleep.
  • (a.) Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.
  • (a.) Not affording rest; as, a restless chair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
  • (2) Twelve days following discontinuation of the drug, the patient continued to experience diarrhea, restlessness, emotional lability, and anxiety.
  • (3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (4) He was admitted to the Hitachi General Hospital because of finger tremor, restlessness and urinary incontinence.
  • (5) The restless legs syndrome is a sensory and motor disorder of evening, repose, and sleep.
  • (6) Seven patients suffering from restless legs syndrome (RLS) and periodic movements in sleep (PMS) were investigated before and after treatment with L-Dopa.
  • (7) There have even been signs that Löw is becoming slightly restless, having started to criticise players in public, something that would have been unthinkable a few years back.
  • (8) After a restless night I unwound the trade the following morning at a small profit.
  • (9) The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.
  • (10) We conclude that the restless mutation alters a Ca2+-activated potassium conductance other than the one previously described.
  • (11) However, by 1994 the increasingly restless veteran jock was lured away again to Capital, where he could be heard crashing his way through Pick of the Pops Take Three at weekends, and to Virgin Radio, which took up his rock show.
  • (12) Ratings on visual analogue scales showed that metoclopramide caused statistically significant (P less than 0.01 difference from placebo) restlessness and slight but significantly less (P less than 0.05 difference from placebo) feeling of happiness.
  • (13) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
  • (14) The clinical symptoms of acute toxication are similar for all studied phenols (restlessness, unsteadiness, clonic tremor, paresis and paralysis of extremities, and death).
  • (15) of exposure, but two of these had been rather restless throughout the session.
  • (16) Hyperkinesis refers to a combination of traits that typically include: overactivity; restlessness; short attention span; distractability; low frustration tolerance; impulsiveness.
  • (17) All the groups showed significant pre- to post-treatment reductions in sweating, palpitations, restlessness, dry mouth, muscular tension, nausea, loss of appetite and upset stomach and the extent of these reductions were not different for the different treatments.
  • (18) The individual number of pathological scores showed a decrease already within the first treatment week and a further decrease by the end of the trial, especially for the items of capriciousness, obstinacy, irritability and restlessness.
  • (19) Subjective symptoms of venous hypertension were assessed by an analogue scale line considering four symptoms: swelling sensation, restless lower extremity, pain and cramps, and tiredness.
  • (20) It includes gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea and diarrhea, headache, dizziness, and restlessness.