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词汇 spiritless
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Definition of spiritless in English:

spiritless

adjectiveˈspɪrɪtləsˈspɪrɪtləs
  • Lacking courage, vigour, or vivacity.

    无精打采的;缺乏活力的

    Ruth and I played a spiritless game of Scrabble

    鲁斯和我无精打采地玩拼字游戏。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In my two practices I had already learned that nothing infuriated Candy more than a spiritless cheerleader.
    • Unfortunately, it's back to the piano and more spiritless love ballads from there.
    • He does not need our wealth or spiritless ritual worship though He gives high value to the heart that is brimful of the feelings of gratitude and thankfulness.
    • While I appear as a spiritless student, my core revolves around pride, but what spirit I have appears but only at selective intervals.
    • The sequel was a spiritless, desultory affair - a poorly edited, flatly directed retread.
    • Well-cooked fish tastes of life, whereas overcooked fish tastes of spiritless grey anti-matter.
    • But the answer, from all parties involved - advertisers, buyers, and networks - appears to be a resounding, but spiritless, ‘No.’
    • Her thoughts were spiritless; she had no energy.
    • Benjamin Disraeli blamed the Act of 1774 for ‘all those flat, dull spiritless streets, all resembling each other, like a large family of plain children.’
    • It is to be distinguished from his dread of a stagnant and spiritless despotism.
    • He enjoyed a physical survival, and wrote short, spiritless articles in Comintern journals.
    • The patient is spiritless, indifferent in expression, has dull eyes and a sluggish response, or may even be unconscious or have a mental disturbance.
    • It is safe music that takes no risks: relying instead on a ball-less, soulless, spiritless edifice of ‘music’.
    • He imagined it would be like lying with a dead woman, so spiritless was her expression.
    • And here I assumed you to be a spiritless little waif!
    • Unfortunately, I usually end up taking the entire soul with me, and then whoever is before me at the time will become a spiritless wanderer, unaware of the fate soon lying before him.
    • I come to that conclusion based upon the spiritless performance City put up against Pompey last Saturday.
    • It is been an absolute nightmare watching the spiritless performances of the team.
    • The online vibrancy displayed by most digerati/blogcritics/netizens somehow contradicts this view - one would not call most netizens spiritless.
    • He looked at me plainly, his face emotionless, lips flat, eyes spiritless, forehead smooth.
    Synonyms
    apathetic, passive, unenthusiastic, lifeless, listless, lacking in vitality, weak, feeble, spineless, droopy, limp, languid, bloodless, insipid, characterless, submissive, meek, irresolute, indecisive
    lacklustre, flat, colourless, passionless, uninspiring, uninspired, wooden, dry, desiccated, unimpassioned, anaemic, vapid, dull, boring
    informal wishy-washy
    British vulgar slang half-arsed

Derivatives

  • spiritlessly

  • adverbˈspɪrɪtləsliˈspɪrɪtləsli
    • Even those without a specific vice floated about spiritlessly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He pulled his cigarette spiritlessly, and his voice was peculiarly dead and monotonous.
      • Anna and I were both on our hands and knees in the mud, scrubbing at the moldy old chair legs spiritlessly, while Martha and Lauren had resorted to sharing the burden of each stack of chairs they were carrying.
      • It sounds as if it has spent the past few hundred years spiritlessly consorting with Ruritanian royalty.
      • During one leg, he was throwing his darts spiritlessly at the board, as if he already had accepted defeat.
  • spiritlessness

  • nounˈspɪrɪtləsnəsˈspɪrɪtləsnəs
    • And this is what I love about the guy: other politicians would have stood ramrod straight and leaked crocodile tears with that aching spiritlessness we have come to expect from them.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their utter spiritlessness extends even to fundamental needs; Mr. M's wife said her husband would have starved to death had she not intervened.
      • There was a spiritlessness about the Tavistock that I think drove Laing to despair.
      • One day she will slip away, and succumb to the spiritlessness of the broth.
      • One opines instead that the spiritlessness of the real world drives more and more people to adopt strong active virtual identities.

Definition of spiritless in US English:

spiritless

adjectiveˈspɪrɪtləsˈspiritləs
  • 1Lacking courage, vigor, or vivacity.

    无精打采的;缺乏活力的

    Ruth and I played a spiritless game of Scrabble

    鲁斯和我无精打采地玩拼字游戏。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But the answer, from all parties involved - advertisers, buyers, and networks - appears to be a resounding, but spiritless, ‘No.’
    • He imagined it would be like lying with a dead woman, so spiritless was her expression.
    • Unfortunately, it's back to the piano and more spiritless love ballads from there.
    • Her thoughts were spiritless; she had no energy.
    • It is been an absolute nightmare watching the spiritless performances of the team.
    • In my two practices I had already learned that nothing infuriated Candy more than a spiritless cheerleader.
    • He enjoyed a physical survival, and wrote short, spiritless articles in Comintern journals.
    • The online vibrancy displayed by most digerati/blogcritics/netizens somehow contradicts this view - one would not call most netizens spiritless.
    • Well-cooked fish tastes of life, whereas overcooked fish tastes of spiritless grey anti-matter.
    • The sequel was a spiritless, desultory affair - a poorly edited, flatly directed retread.
    • He does not need our wealth or spiritless ritual worship though He gives high value to the heart that is brimful of the feelings of gratitude and thankfulness.
    • It is to be distinguished from his dread of a stagnant and spiritless despotism.
    • I come to that conclusion based upon the spiritless performance City put up against Pompey last Saturday.
    • While I appear as a spiritless student, my core revolves around pride, but what spirit I have appears but only at selective intervals.
    • He looked at me plainly, his face emotionless, lips flat, eyes spiritless, forehead smooth.
    • The patient is spiritless, indifferent in expression, has dull eyes and a sluggish response, or may even be unconscious or have a mental disturbance.
    • Unfortunately, I usually end up taking the entire soul with me, and then whoever is before me at the time will become a spiritless wanderer, unaware of the fate soon lying before him.
    • Benjamin Disraeli blamed the Act of 1774 for ‘all those flat, dull spiritless streets, all resembling each other, like a large family of plain children.’
    • It is safe music that takes no risks: relying instead on a ball-less, soulless, spiritless edifice of ‘music’.
    • And here I assumed you to be a spiritless little waif!
    Synonyms
    apathetic, passive, unenthusiastic, lifeless, listless, lacking in vitality, weak, feeble, spineless, droopy, limp, languid, bloodless, insipid, characterless, submissive, meek, irresolute, indecisive
    1. 1.1 Depressed, downcast, or melancholy.
      over the course of just one summer, our irrepressible Michael had become dark and spiritless
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is so spiritless and cowardly that even while his exposed teeth are pretending a threat, the rest of his face is apologizing for it.
      • Knowing this awful truth, the young boy slumped back spiritless on his seat while a minute sense of sadness slowly crept across his face.
      • It is why he is so distressed by the superficial and spiritless nature of his wife.
      • In that depressing atmosphere and with Birmingham sliding to the relegation zone, detractors could have argued that he would become spiritless and simply take the money.
      • Jake had been right - I hadn't left, and I had already turned into a battered, broken, and spiritless shell.
      • She had the same broken, spiritless expression the Eidolon so often got.
      • But last year the Eagles were spiritless, hopeless and less competitive than even the hapless Dockers.
      • Lara has often found his efforts squandered by inept, reckless or spiritless teammates.
      • The self-pity can really choke the heart until you feel spiritless.
      • She nodded, acting devastated and spiritless.
      • Today we live like spiritless cattle on a dying planet, bored, angry, depressed.
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