spiritless

spiritless
    adj 1: lacking ardor or vigor or energy; "a spiritless reply to
           criticism" [ant: {spirited}]
    2: 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" [syn:
       {meek}, {spiritless}]
    

Spiritless \Spir"it*less\, a.
   1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting
      cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
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   2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.
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            A men so faint, so spiritless,
            So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. --Shak.
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   3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body."
      --Greenhill.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Spir"it*less*ly}, adv. --
      {Spir"it*less*ness}, n.
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187 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiritless":
      Laodicean, Olympian, affectless, aloof, anesthetized, apathetic,
      arctic, arid, asleep, autistic, barren, benumbed, blah, blank,
      blase, bloodless, blue, blunt, bowed-down, cast down, catatonic,
      characterless, chill, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold-blooded,
      coldhearted, colorless, comatose, cool, dashed, dead, deceased,
      defunct, dejected, departed, depressed, desensitized, despairing,
      despondent, desponding, detached, disconsolate, discouraged,
      disheartened, disinterested, dismal, dispassionate, dispirited,
      down, downcast, downhearted, draggy, drearisome, dreary, drooping,
      droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine,
      emotionally dead, emotionless, empty, etiolated, exanimate,
      extinct, fade, feeling low, flat, frigid, frosted, frosty, frozen,
      gritless, gutless, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, ho-hum, hollow,
      hopeless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, icy, immovable,
      impassible, impassive, in a stupor, in low spirits, in the depths,
      in the doldrums, in the dumps, inane, indifferent, inexcitable,
      insipid, insouciant, insusceptible, jejune, languid, languishing,
      leaden, lethargic, lifeless, listless, low, low-spirited,
      nonchalant, nonemotional, numb, numbed, objective, obtuse,
      out of touch, pale, pallid, passionless, passive, pedestrian,
      pessimistic, phlegmatic, pining, plodding, pluckless, pointless,
      poky, ponderous, resigned, self-absorbed, slack, slow, sluggish,
      solemn, soporific, soulless, spunkless, sterile, stiff, stodgy,
      stoic, stuffy, stupefied, subdued, submissive, suicidal,
      superficial, supine, tasteless, tedious, torpid, unaffectionate,
      unanimated, uncaring, unconcerned, uncourageous, undaring,
      unemotional, unfeeling, ungallant, unheroic, unimpassioned,
      unimpressionable, uninterested, unintrepid, unlively, unloving,
      unpassionate, unresponding, unresponsive, unsoldierlike,
      unsoldierly, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, unvaliant,
      unvalorous, vapid, weary of life, withdrawn, woebegone, wooden,
      world-weary