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Webster 1913 Edition


Spiritless

Spir′it-less

,
Adj.
1.
Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
2.
Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
A men so faint, so
spiritless
,
So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone.
Shakespeare
3.
Having no breath; extinct; dead.
“The spiritless body.”
Greenhill.
Spir′it-less-ly
,
adv.
Spir′it-less-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Spiritless

SPIRITLESS

,
Adj.
1.
Destitute of spirits; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
2.
Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage or fire; as a spiritless slave.
A man so faint, so spiritless, so dull, so dead in look--
3.
Having no breath; extinct; dead.

Definition 2024


spiritless

spiritless

English

Adjective

spiritless (comparative more spiritless, superlative most spiritless)

  1. Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
    The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.

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