Spiritless

Definition: Spiritless

Spiritless

Adjective

1. Lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to criticism".

2. Lacking spirit; "it was a spiritless attempt".

3. Evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others"; "a fine fiery blast against meek conformity"- Orville Prescott; "she looked meek but had the heart of a lion"; "was submissive and subservient".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spiritless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Spiritless

Cowardice

Adjective: coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.

Dejection

Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.

Insensibility

Adjective: insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable, unimpressible; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless; unfeeling, unmoral.

Crosswords: Spiritless

Soft and spiritless as porridge (Legend; writing credit: William Hjortsberg)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

pa dëshirë (reluctantly, unwillingly), i pajetë (dead, dead alive, inanimate, lifeless, vacuous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاقد الحيوية (inanimate), ‏فاتر (apathetic, chilly, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, frigid, half hearted, indifferent, languid, listless, lukewarm, slack, stagnant, tepid, unenthusiastic, unfriendly), ‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏محبط (depressed, frustrate, frustrated, frustrating, grim, low), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, enervate, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏خائر (prone), ‏جبان (apprehensive, chicken, chicken heart, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, cur, faint, fearful, fearsome, funk, funky, heartless, lily livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, pusillanimous, scared, sheepish, shy, sissified, sissy, timid, timorous, tremulous, unmanly, weak-kneed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страхлив (chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, funky, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor spirited, recreant, sissy), отпуснат (enervate, flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, untight), апатичен (apathetic, apathetical, inanimate, languid, lethargic, listless, torpid, vacant), бездушен (exanimate, heartless, indurate, niminy-piminy, soulless, toneless, torpid, unanimated, unsympathetic), без настроение (liverish, livery, off color, off colour, out of humor, out of humour, out of sorts, petulant, washed out). (various references)

Chinese 

萎 (wither, withered). (various references)

Czech

bezduchý (dull, empty, nerveless). (various references)

French

sans entrain, sans énergie, lâche, déprimé (in low spirits), démoralisé (in low spirits), apathique. (various references)

German

temperamentlos (lifeless), lustlosen, lustlos (dull, half hearted, halfhearted, lackadaisical, lethargic, lethargically, listless, slack, sluggish, unenthusiastic, weary), geistlos (brainless, dull, inane, insipid, mindless, spiritlessly, unimaginative, unintelligently, vapid). (various references)

Greek 

άκαρδοσ (heartless, soulless), άτονοσ (colorless, colourless, flaccid, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nerveless, toneless, unaccented), άθυμοσ (crestfallen, depressed, exanimate, Moody, mopish, sad, sulky, vaporish). (various references)

Hungarian

erõtlen (enervate, forceless, lifeless, powerless, sapless, supine, washed up). (various references)

Indonesian

bacul (lacking spunk). (various references)

Italian

avvilito (crestfallen, hangdog, miserable, mopish). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

腑�"�斐無い (cowardly, disappointing, weak-minded, worthless), 腑�"�斐ない (cowardly, disappointing, weak-minded, worthless), 不�"�斐無い (cowardly, disappointing, weak-minded, worthless), 不�"�斐ない (cowardly, disappointing, weak-minded, worthless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふがいない (cowardly, disappointing, weak-minded, worthless). (various references)

Manx

neuvioyr (flat, flat mood, inactive, listless, moribund, run-down, tame), gyn annym (flat, flat mood, inanimate, soulless). (various references)

Pig Latin

iritlessspay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem vivacidade, sem vigor (pithless, sapless), sem vida (azoic, bleak, free-for-all, lifeless), sem energia (boneless, characterless, nerveless, pithless, sapless, slack, sluggish, spineless, supine), mole (boneless, flaccid, floppy, limp, loppy, molluscous, mushy, pappy, pithless, pulpy, sleepy, sluggish, soapy, soft, spineless, squashy, supine, tender, weak), inanimado (hard-hearted, inanimate, insensate, insentient, kill-time, lifeless, senseless), fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, enervate, failing, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk-and-water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, watery, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy-washy), débil (broken, enervate, failing, faint, feeble, fragile, frail, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, weak, weakly). (various references)

Romanian

neînsufleţit (brute, inanimate, lifeless), molâu (flabby, spineless), lipsit de viaţã (flagging, lifeless), fricos (apprehensive, caitiff, chicken hearted, coward, cowardly, Craven, cur, dastard, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, funky, hare-hearted, hen-hearted, lily livered, milk-livered, mollycoddle, Patsi, pigeon-hearted, piker, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, shy, timid, timorous, white livered, yellow). (various references)

Russian 

безжизненный (anaemic, azoic, bloodless, dead alive, exanimate, inanimate, languid, lifeless, unanimated). (various references)

Scottish

meirbh (delicate, va. digest in the stomach). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utučen (blue, chap-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, dispirited, down-hearted, hangdog, heartsick, low, low-spirited), malodušan (fainthearted, low-spirited, poor spirited, pusillanimous, timorous, weak-spirited), bez života (dead alive, inanimate, insensate, lifeless). (various references)

Spanish

sin ánimo, exánime (exanimate, lifeless), apocado (diffident, faint-hearted, poor spirited, timid, weak-spirited). (various references)

Turkish

sönük (dead pan, dim, extinct, extinguished, faint, lifeless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid), ruhsuz (dead alive, dull, impassive, inanimate, soulless, stagnant, wooden), pısırık (diffident, jellyfish, pusillanimous, shy, unenterprising), korkak (caitiff, chicken, chicken hearted, chicken-livered, cissy, coward, cowardly, Craven, dastardly, dingo, faint, faintheart, fainthearted, fearful, funk, funky, gutless, hen-hearted, lily livered, milksop, milquetoast, pigeon livered, pigeonhearted, poltroon, poor spirited, pusillanimous, rabbit, recreant, scary, sissy, skulking, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, timid, unmanly, weak-spirited, white livered, yellow, yellow dog), cesaretsiz (dispirited, faint, fainthearted, spineless, timid, weak-spirited), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, sapless, singsong, sluggish, soulless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy). (various references)

Ukrainian

боязкий (backward, bashful, coward, dastard, dastardly, diffident, eerie, eery, faint-hearted, fearful, heartless, nervous, ovine, pavid, poor spirited, shamefaced, sheepish, timid, timorous), безініціативний, бездиханний (breathless, exanimate, lifeless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

yếu đuối (impotent, infirm, marrowless, molly-coddle, puny, unmanly, weak), nhút nhát (chicken-hearted, diffident, faint-hearted, hen-hearted, milk-livered, pigeon-hearted, poor-spirited, rabbity, shily, shy, shyly, timid, timorous, wak-hearted, white-livered), không có tinh thần (exanimate, expressionless). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spiritless": spiritlessly, spiritlessness, spiritlessnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spiritless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spirites. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: prissiest.

-2 letters: persists, pitiless, prissies, resplits, spiriest.

-3 letters: esprits, lispers, listers, persist, pissers, pistils, pitiers, plisses, priests, prisses, relists, resists, resplit, siltier, sissier, sisters, spirits, spriest, sprites, stipels, stirpes, stripes, tipless, tipsier, triples.

-4 letters: esprit, irises, islets, isseis, istles, lisper, lister, liters, litres, perils, pisser, pisses, pistes, pistil, pitier, pities, pliers, plisse, prests, priest.

+1 letter: peristalsis.

+2 letters: priestliness, spiritlessly.

+3 letters: leptospirosis, listenerships, spiritualness, sprightliness.

+4 letters: priestlinesses, scrupulosities, spiritlessness.

+5 letters: legislatorships, painterlinesses, pictorialnesses, spiritualnesses, sprightlinesses, superspecialist, superstitiously, suppressibility.