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Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.

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  1. a. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
  2. a. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
  3. a. Having no breath; extinct; dead.
  4. adj. lacking ardor or vigor or energy
  5. adj. evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant
  6. 1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. 2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak. 3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body." Greenhill. -- Spir"it*less*ly, adv. -- Spir"it*less*ness, n.
  7. j:100 a. lacking ardor or vigor or energy