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Definition: Listlessly |
ListlesslyAdverb1. In a listless manner; "they shook hands rather listlessly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "listlessly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Tongue Twisters | Lisa laughed listlessly. (references; author: unknown) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Now, as then, he stood listlessly in his place, seemingly a tranquil watcher of the scene before him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They settled lazily into the water and washed listlessly at their flanks. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Listlessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Listlessly" is used about 50 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 50 | 48,117 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "listlessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | creuxse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lustlose (halfheartedly, spiritlessly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kedvetlenül (dejectedly, half-heartedly, moodily, peevishly, sourly), közömbösen (disinterestedly, impassively, indifferently, unconcernedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istlesslylay lojt. (various references) อย่างเฉื่อยชา. (various references) umursamazca (recklessly), ilgisizce (carelessly, incuriously, lukewarmly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "listlessly" (pronounced li"stluslē) |
| 7 | -s t l u s l ē | restlessly. |
| 6 | -t l u s l ē | effortlessly, fruitlessly, relentlessly. |
| 5 | -l u s l ē | aimlessly, breathlessly, callously, carelessly, ceaselessly, endlessly, fabulously, flawlessly, frivolously, harmlessly, helplessly, hopelessly, jealously, marvelously, mercilessly, meticulously, mindlessly, miraculously, needlessly, painlessly, perilously, recklessly, ridiculously, ruthlessly, scrupulously, seamlessly, shamelessly, tirelessly, tremulously, zealously. |
| 4 | -u s l ē | ambitiously, anonymously, anxiously, assiduously, autonomously, capriciously, cautiously, conscientiously, consciously, conspicuously, contemporaneously, contemptuously, continuously, courageously, curiously, dangerously, deliciously, disastrously, egregiously, enormously, enviously, erroneously, expeditiously, facetiously, fallaciously, famously, ferociously, furiously, generously, gloriously, graciously, gratuitously, grievously, harmoniously, hellaciously, hideously, hilariously, horrendously, humorously, incongruously, indigenously, ingeniously, instantaneously, intravenously, judiciously, laboriously, ludicrously, maliciously, mysteriously, nervously, notoriously, obviously, ominously, ostentatiously, outrageously, piously, posthumously, precariously, precipitously, previously, prodigiously, purposely, religiously, righteously, rigorously, seriously, simultaneously, spontaneously, strenuously, studiously, subconsciously, surreptitiously, suspiciously, synonymously, tediously, tenaciously, tremendously, unambiguously, unanimously, unceremoniously, unconsciously, variously, vicariously, viciously, vigorously, vociferously. |
| 3 | -s l ē | adversely, closely, concisely, conversely, densely, expressly, falsely, fiercely, grossly, immensely, intensely, inversely, loosely, nicely, parsley, perversely, precisely, princely, profusely, scarcely, sparsely, tensely, tersely, thusly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-l-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: listless, slitless, stylises. | |
-3 letters: listels, stylise. | |
-4 letters: illest, islets, istles, lisles, listel, sliest, slyest, stiles, stills, stilly, styles, tellys. | |
-5 letters: isles, islet, istle, lilts, lisle, lists, lyses, lysis, sells, sills, silly, silts, silty, sises, sissy, sites, slily, slits, sties, stile, still, styes, style, styli, sylis, tells, telly, tiles, tills, yells, yetis, yills. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 73 74 6C 65 73 73 6C 79 |
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