listlessly
/lˈɪstləsli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.77 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a listless manner; without energy or enthusiasm.
Example Sentences
- "The lamb bunted several irresponsive objects - never its dam's udder - baaing listlessly."
- "And as a child stares at the bare walls of a narrow hut, so the gods looked all listlessly upon the worlds, saying: “Will no new thing be?”"
- "He thrust his head into the aisle. "Boy!" A Chinese in a white coat responded listlessly. "What will you have? Beer?""
- "Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English lystles English listless Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English listlessly From listless + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more listlessly (comparative)
most listlessly (superlative)