lethargic

comparative more lethargic · superlative most lethargic · alternative obsolete lethargick

1. Sluggish, slow.

   She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.

   1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125

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   [That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.

   1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII

   Synonyms: torpid, lazy, unmoving, abeyant, at rest, cessant, dormant, dull

2. Indifferent, apathetic.

   Synonyms: torpid, unmoving, adiaphroistic, apathetic, apathistical, blasé, blithe, deaf