Lackadaisical

Definitions: Lackadaisical

Lackadaisical

Adjective

1. Lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon".

2. Idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse.

Date "lackadaisical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

Note: Lackadaisical \Lack`a*dai"si*cal\, adjective. [From Lackadaisy, interj.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Lackadaisical Affected, pensive, sentimental, artificially tender. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lackadaisical

Synonyms: dreamy (adj), languid (adj), languorous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dejection	Sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful; dolesome, doleful; woebegone; lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic; lackadaisical.
Inactivity	Dilatory, laggard; lagging; Verb: slow; rusty, flagging; lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering; Verb:shilly-shally; (irresolute).
Indifference	Adjective: indifferent, cold, frigid, lukewarm; cool, cool as a cucumber; unconcerned, insouciant, phlegmatic, pococurante, easygoing, devil-may-care, careless, listless, lackadaisical; half-hearted; unambitious, unaspiring, undesirous, unsolicitous, unattracted.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Lackadaisical

English words defined with "lackadaisical": dreamy ♦ lackadaisically, Lackadaisy, languid, languorous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "lackadaisical": Jacques. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The lackadaisical sweeper : short stories (reference) (more book examples)
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"Lackadaisical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lackadaisical" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	17	85,106

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "lackadaisical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i tërhequr (devoted, dinky, unapproachable, withdrawn), i plogët (apathetic, apathetical, clumsy, dull, idle, indolent, inert, slack, slothful, supine), i lëshuar (abandoned, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, funky, languid, languishing, lax, licentious, limp, loose, nerveless, pendulous, profligate, slack, slatternly, slipshod, weary, wretched), i çinteresuar (uninterested). (various references)

Arabic		‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏تعوزه الحيوية (bloodless, inanimation). (various references)

Bulgarian		вял (colorless, colourless, dead alive, half hearted, indolent, insipid, leaden, lifeless, remiss, slow, torpid), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), престорено сантиментален, превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy). (various references)

Chinese		� 精�"采 (lackadaisically, listless). (various references)

Czech		lhostejný (apathetic, casual, cold, coldly, detached, impassive, impervious, indifferent, insensible, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, phlegmatic, unconcerned, uninterested, unsympathetic), neteèný (apathetic, impassive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lethargic, passive, phlegmatic, sleepy, sluggish, supine), choulostivý (delicate, squeamish, tender, ticklish, tricky, vexed). (various references)

Farsi		نازدار, بی حال (Inactive, Languid, Slothful, Stolid), بی اشتیاق (Lukewarm). (various references)

French		indolent (languid, lazy), apathique. (various references)

German		lustlos (dull, half hearted, halfhearted, lethargic, lethargically, listless, slack, sluggish, spiritless, unenthusiastic, weary), lasch (feeble, insipid, lax, limp, wet, wishy washy), nachlässig (careless, carelessly, forgetful, inattentive, lax, neglectful, neglectfully, negligent, negligently, remiss, slack, slipshod, sloppy, thoughtless), desinteressiert (uninterested). (various references)

Greek		βαρυεστημένοσ (jaded, weary of), άτονοσ (colorless, colourless, flaccid, languid, listless, nerveless, spiritless, toneless, unaccented), αδιάφοροσ (blasι, dead to, incurious, indifferent, listless, lukewarm, nonchalant, unconcerned, uninterested), ψευδοαισθηματικόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		א�"יש (apathetic, inactive, indifferent, inert, listless, sluggish, torpid, unconcerned). (various references)

Hungarian		nyafkán ábrándos. (various references)

Italian		apatico (apathetic, apathetical, half hearted, torpid), affetto (affected, affection, attachment, bosom, endearment, heart, love). (various references)

Pig Latin		ackadaisicallay.(various references)

Romanian		lipsit de energie (dead-head, flat, slack), sentimental (maudlin, namby-pamby, sentimental, sentimentalist, sentimentally, slip-slop, soapy, soft, soulful, soulfully, tender-hearted), plin de dor (languid, wistful), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, slow, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), galeş (wistful), apatic (apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, indifferent, indolently, insensible, lackadaisically, languid, languidly, listless, moony, sleepy, sluggish, supine, tardy, torpid), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian		томный (die away, die-away), вялый (apathetic, apathetical, dopey, dopy, drowsy, exanimate, flabby, flaccid, flat, indolent, inert, insipid, languid, languorous, lethargic, listless, remiss, saggy, sapless, slack, sluggish, spiritless, stolid, torpid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trom (bovine, heavy-footed, indolent, laggard, leaden, listless, logy, otiose, slow, sluggish, torpid), neodlučan (ambivalent, half hearted, halfhearted, hesitant, hesitative, indecisive, irresolute, undecided, undecisive, wavering, weak-minded, wishy washy), mlitav (flabby, languorous, limp, listless, loose, remiss), šonjav (weak). (various references)

Spanish		tardo (dilatory, fatheaded). (various references)

Swedish		likgiltig (apathetic, apathetical, half hearted, immaterial, inapprehensive, incurious, indifferent, insensible, insouciant, languid, perfunctory, unconcerned, unsympathetic), slapp (flabby, flaccid, flaggy, languid, lax, limp, pithless, slack, wet), ointresserad (disinterested, incurious, unconcerned, uninterested, unintrested), nonchalant (airy, casual, casually, cavalier, flippant, jaunty, off hand, offhand, offhanded). (various references)

Thai		หม�"อาลัยตายอยาก. (various references)

Turkish		uyuşuk (asleep, benumbed, bonelazy, bovine, dormant, drowsy, happy, indolent, inert, lazy, lethargic, lethargical, numb, poky, quiescent, slack, slacker, sleepy, slothful, slouching, slouchy, soggy, stick in the mud, supine, torpid), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), bezgin (disgusted, exhausted, haggard, tired of life, weary of life). (various references)

Ukranian		мрійливий (museful, starry eyed), манірний (affected, angular, ceremonious, donnish, finical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, offish, prim, prudish, smug, starchy), апатичний (apathetic, apathetical, listless). (various references)

Vietnamese		uỷ mị (flabby, flaccid, maudlin, misty-eyed, mushy, soft), ẻo lả (effeminate, languorous, sickly, soft), đa sầu, đa cảm; yếu đuối. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lackadaisical": lackadaisically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Lackadaisical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lackadaisacal, lackadiasical, lackidaisical, lacksadaisical, lakcadaisical, lsckadaisical. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "lackadaisical" (pronounced la'kudā"zikul)
5	-z i k u l	metaphysical, musical, physical, whimsical.
4	-i k u l	acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, categorical, cervical, chronological, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, epidemiological, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, gynecological, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, inimical, ironical, lexical, liturgical, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, mathematical, mechanical, metallurgical, metaphorical, methodological, metrical, morphological, mystical, mythological, neoclassical, neurological, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, ontological, optical, ornithological, paradoxical, pathological, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, physiological, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, puritanical, rabbinical, radiological, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, sociological, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, strategical, surgical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, topical, toxicological, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, zoological.
3	-k u l	aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-c-c-d-i-i-k-l-l-s"
	-5 letters: accidias.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-c-c-d-i-i-k-l-l-s"
	+2 letters: lackadaisically.
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