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ennui [ˈɒnwiː (French) ɑ̃nɥi] n
a feeling of listlessness and general dissatisfaction resulting from lack of activity or excitement [from French: apathy, from Old French enui annoyance, vexation; see annoy] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
ennui noun (Literary) boredom, dissatisfaction, tiredness, the doldrums, lethargy, tedium, lassitude, listlessness He suffered from ennui whenever he was alone. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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and it was all from ennui, gentlemen, all from ennui; inertia overcame me. The surmise of my maturer years is that, bored by her interminable life, the venerable antiquity was simply yawning with ennui at every seam. After four days of solitude, ennui, and consciousness of his impotence and insignificance- particularly acute by contrast with the sphere of power in which he had so lately moved- and after several marches with the marshal's baggage and the French army, which occupied the whole district, Balashev was brought to Vilna- now occupied by the French- through the very gate by which he had left it four days previously. |
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