Thesaurus: spiritless
Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
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Definitions
- a. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
- a. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
- a. Having no breath; extinct; dead.
- adj. lacking ardor or vigor or energy
- adj. evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant
- 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.
- j:100 a. lacking ardor or vigor or energy