listless

Antonyms for listless

adjective. unfeeling

adjective. uneventful

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., from Middle English liste "pleasure, joy, delight" (see list (v.4)) + -less. Related: Listlessly; listlessness.

His heart no longer thumped—it was throbbing in a tired, listless fashion.

She shook violently for a while before she answered in a listless voice.

Eventually, however, she lapsed into a sort of listless immobility.

"Then I've missed them," said Rotha, sinking into a chair in a listless attitude.

There was a listless melancholy, a lonely weariness in his look and movements.

He dropped with a listless weariness into the chair that Greta drew up to the fire.

Rum was in itself an effect, and not by any means the cause of the Captain's listless apathy.

She fell into fits of hysteria, sat whole hours listless, with her feet on the fender.

He surveyed her slumped figure, her lined and listless face.

She no longer grieved––no longer sat sad and listless in her place.