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Word entry · 9 letters

lethargic

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"Sluggish"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ləˈθɑɹd͡ʒɪk/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aceghilrtStarts with LEnds with C1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. deficient in alertness or activity

Word origin

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ληθαργικός (lēthargikós), from λήθαργος (lḗthargos, “forgetful, lethargic”), from λήθη (lḗthē, “a forgetting, forgetfulness”) (from which Lethe (“river in Hades”)) + ἀργός (argós, “not working”). By surface analysis, lethargy + -ic.

Used in a sentence

  • She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.

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