lassitude
3
9.3
- noun
- /ˈlæsɪˌtud/
- Formal
:
languidez
- Things do not often happen quickly in baseball; the game has an endearing lassitude that can make you feel like you own it.
But he does say alas, and I will have to rescind the speculation, that lassitude is part of the terrible downward feeling in those opening lines.
- But he does say alas, and I will have to rescind the speculation, that lassitude is part of the terrible downward feeling in those opening lines.
Examples
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A long shiver shook her entire body, and she seemed overtaken by a severe lassitude.
Fiction book (1996) -
Ah, the feeling of melancholy and lassitude of arrivals mixed with the emptiness and regret of departures!
Blog text (7) -
A few months before his death, not yet knowing he had cancer, my father was seized by lassitude and misery.
Academic text (1999) -
Disturbed sleep patterns, loss of appetite, lassitude, and many more.
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His color faded and lassitude took over again.
Fiction book (1990) -
A feeling of lassitude surged through him.
Fiction book (1994) -
Lassitude, I told myself, was not so much a condition of sin as a precondition of rest.
Fiction book (1998) -
After registering with Beverly, Ellen went back into the lounge, feeling a deep lassitude.
Fiction book (2002) -
Ballin and colleagues found that iron-treated adolescent girls reported decreased lassitude and improved mood and ability to concentrate.
Academic text (1999) -
After a long week at work, I felt an overwhelming sense of lassitude and could hardly get out of bed on Saturday.
Synonyms
78
3.6
Extreme physical or mental tiredness after hard work
20
3.1
A strong feeling of being very tired in body or mind
12
6.3
A feeling of tiredness and low energy
10
1.0
A feeling of not having energy after physical or mental work
4
4.4
A state of being slow and having little energy
2
8.3
A feeling of being very tired and moving slowly
2
6.8
A feeling of little energy and no interest
1
4.4
A feeling of being tired after long thinking or stress
1
7.5
A feeling of being tired and bored after having too much of something
1
9.9
A state of being inactive and lacking energy
A feeling of great weakness and tiredness
A time when the body or mind is slow and has little energy
A feeling of being heavy, slow, and very tired
A slow, dull feeling that makes you tired
A lack of energy and interest that makes a person feel tired and low
A state of low energy that makes you move slowly
A lack of energy and strength that often follows an illness
A state of being weak, tired and no longer effective
Antonyms
How Tired
Surface Forms
Morphology
lassitude = lassi + tude
Formed with the learned suffix '-tude' from a non-productive stem 'lassi-' that is not a standalone English base, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Lassitude comes from the old word lassus, which means 'weary' or 'very tired'. So lassitude is the heavy, slow kind of tiredness — a state of low energy or lack of enthusiasm.