Meaning of LACKADAISICAL
| Pronunciation: | | `laku'deyzikul
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- [adj] idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
- [adj] lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon"
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| | Synonyms: | | dreamy, idle, languid, languorous, lethargic, unergetic |
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| | Definition: | | \Lack`a*dai"si*cal\, a. [From {Lackadaisy},
interj.]
Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. --
{Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | apathetic, ataractic, backward, benumbed, blase, bored, careless, casual, cold, cool, dallying, dead, debilitated, degage, delaying, devil-may-care, dilatory, dillydallying, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, easygoing, emasculated, enervated, exanimate, faineant, foot-dragging, free and easy, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, idle, inactive, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, indolent, inert, inexcitable, insouciant, jaded, laggard, lagging, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lazy, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lingering, listless, loitering, lukewarm, lumpish, Micawberish, mindless, moribund, negligent, nonchalant, numb, offhand, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, pooped, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, regardless, remiss, romantic, sated, sentimental, shuffling, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tepid, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexcitable, unexcited, unimpressed, uninspired, uninterested, unmindful, unmoved, unsolicitous, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary |
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