lackadaisical

comparative more lackadaisical · superlative most lackadaisical · alternative lack-a-daisical

1. Showing no interest, vigor, determination, or enthusiasm.

   the lackadaisical look on his face

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   I, at one time, used to go and take a hand at cribbage with a friend, and afterwards discuss a cold sirloin of beef, and throw out a few lackadaisical remarks, in a way to please myself, but it would not do long.

   1822, William Hazlitt, “On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority”, in Table-Talk, volume II

   "Then let those who do know it learn that you are able to bear such wounds without outward complaint. I tell you fairly that I cannot sympathize with a lackadaisical lover."

   1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 58, in The Small House at Allington

   I could hear the sound of the janitor's lackadaisical scrubbing against the wooden floor.

   2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest

   Synonyms: languid, listless, unenthusiastic, uninterested, lethargic, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical

2. Lazy; slothful; indolent.

   Synonyms: idle, bone-idle, fainéant, idle, indolent, inert, lazy, lither