lethargic

CEFRC1

/ləˈθɑɹd͡ʒɪk/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Feeling very tired and lacking energy or interest.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Indifferent, apathetic.

Examples

  • I feel lethargic when I diet, what should I do?

  • The forum looks lethargic; maybe it's your diet.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Sluggish, slow.

More examples

In context

  • [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.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ληθαργικός (lēthargikós), from λήθαργος (lḗthargos, “forgetful, lethargic”), from λήθη (lḗthē, “a forgetting, forgetfulness”) (from which Lethe (“river in Hades”)) + ἀργός (argós, “not working”). By surface analysis, lethargy + -ic.