lethargic

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le·thar·gic

(lə-thär′jĭk)

adj.

Of, causing, or characterized by lethargy.

le·thar′gi·cal·ly adv.

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le•thar•gic

(ləˈθɑr dʒɪk)

adj.

1. of or affected with lethargy.

2. producing lethargy.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin, Latin < Greek]

le•thar′gi•cal•ly, adv.

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Adj.

lethargic - deficient in alertness or activity; "bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights"

inactive - not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"

energetic - possessing or exerting or displaying energy; "an energetic fund raiser for the college"; "an energetic group of hikers"; "it caused an energetic chemical reaction"

lethargic

adjective sluggish, slow, lazy, sleepy, heavy, dull, indifferent, debilitated, inactive, inert, languid, apathetic, drowsy, listless, comatose, stupefied, unenthusiastic, somnolent, torpid, slothful, enervated, unenergetic He felt too miserable and lethargic to get dressed.
spirited, active, alert, stimulated, vigorous, energetic, animated, responsive

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lethargic

adjective

1. Lacking mental and physical alertness and activity:

hebetudinous, sluggish, stupid, stuporous, torpid.

Slang: dopey.

2. Without emotion or interest:

apathetic, detached, impassive, incurious, indifferent, insensible, listless, phlegmatic, stolid, unconcerned, uninterested, unresponsive.

Translations

سُباتي، خامِل

strnulý

sløv

lethargisch

léthargique

letargikus

sinnulaus

letargický

lethargic

[leˈθɑːdʒɪk] ADJ → letárgico, aletargado; [response] → apático
to feel lethargic [person] → sentirse somnoliento or aletargado
the market/trading was lethargic (St Ex) → el mercado/el volumen de contratación apenas se movió

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

lethargic

[lɪˈθɑː^rdʒɪk] adj [person] → léthargique; [performance, pace] → léthargique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

lethargic

adj

appearance, person, atmosphere → träge, lethargisch; animal → träge; pace of music → schleppend; (= uninterested) → lethargisch, teilnahmslos, lustlos; a lethargic-looking child → ein teilnahmslos aussehendes Kind; to feel lethargic → sich träge fühlen

(Med) → schlafsüchtig, lethargisch

(Comm, St Ex) sales, trading → stagnierend; market → lustlos

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

lethargic

[lɪˈθɑːdʒɪk] adj (physically) → fiacco/a; (mentally) → apatico/a

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lethargy

(ˈleθədʒi) noun

lack of interest or energy.

leˈthargic (-ˈθaː-) adjective

lethargic

, lethargical

a. letárgico-a, aletargado-a.

lethargic

adj letárgico

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I have looked at her, in a state so dun and lethargic, that I have thought of nothing but the number of horizontal lines I could draw across her at the full, and the number of perpendicular lines with which I could intersect them." He added in his inward and pondering manner, as he looked at the moon, "It was twenty either way, I remember, and the twentieth was difficult to squeeze in."

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It made us all lethargic before we had gone far, and when we had left the Half-way House behind, we habitually dozed and shivered and were silent.

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Slowly, very slowly, as these visions of the past animated his lethargic memory, he came to recognize them.

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From that time her life alternated, for a few weeks, between fits of raving delirium and intervals of lethargic repose.

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Never, in the weeks of their married life, had Billy found her dowdy, or harshly irritable, or lethargic. And she had deliberately permeated her house with her personal atmosphere of coolness, and freshness, and equableness.

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The lethargic youth contrived without any additional rousing to set out two card-tables; the one for Pope Joan, and the other for whist.

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While engaged in the latter incomprehensible manner, the lethargic Abner turned aside, and swallowing the unwonted emotions which were rising in his own throat, he observed--

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She continued either delirious or lethargic; and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her.

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It was not a very easy matter to rouse him: so lethargic and heavy were his slumbers.

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He adds, "The Indians often find enormous boas, which they call Uji or water serpents, in the same lethargic state.

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It was in vain to speak comfortably to him; the wound had sunk too deep; it was a stab that touched the vitals; he grew melancholy and disconsolate, and from thence lethargic, and died.

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"She complains of difficulty breathing satisfactorily at times, and of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but regarding which she can remember nothing.