spiritless

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: spir=it=less

CIDE DICTIONARY

spiritless, a. 

•  Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.  [1913 Webster]
•  Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.  [1913 Webster]

  "A men so faint, so spiritless,
  So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone."  [1913 Webster]
•  Having no breath; extinct; dead.  Greenhill.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spiritless, adj. lacking courage, vigour, or vivacity.

Derivative

spiritlessly adv. spiritlessness n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

spiritless

Insensibility

N insensibility, insensibleness, moral insensibility, inertness, inertia, vis inertiae, impassibility, impassibleness, inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness, cold fit, cold blood, cold heart, coldness, coolness, frigidity, sang froid, stoicism, imperturbation, nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes, insouciance, recklessness, callousness, heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness, torpor, torpidity, obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance, vegetative state, sleep, suspended animation, stupor, stupefaction, paralysis, palsy, numbness, neutrality, quietism, vegetation, insensible, unconscious, impassive, impassible, blind to, deaf to, dead to, unsusceptible, insusceptible, unimpressionable, unimpressible, passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless, unfeeling, unmoral, apathetic, leuco-, phlegmatic, dull, frigid, cold blooded, cold hearted, cold as charity, flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific, sleepy, languid, half-hearted, tame, numbed, comatose, anaesthetic, stupefied, chloroformed, drugged, stoned, palsy-stricken, indifferent, lukewarm, careless, mindless, regardless, inattentive, neglectful, disregarding, unconcerned, nonchalant, pococurante, insouciant, sans souci, unambitious, unaffected, unruffled, unimpressed, uninspired, unexcited, unmoved, unstirred, untouched, unshocked, unstruck, unblushing, unanimated, vegetative, callous, thick-skinned, hard-nosed, pachydermatous, impervious, hardened, inured, casehardened, steeled against, proof against, imperturbable, unfelt, insensibly, aequo animo, without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed, in cold blood, with dry eyes, with withers unwrung, never mind, macht nichts, it is of no consequence, it cannot be helped, nothing coming amiss, it is all the same to, it is all one to.

Dejection

N dejection, dejectedness, depression, prosternation, lowness of spirits, depression of spirits, weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits, low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits, heart sinking, heaviness of heart, failure of heart, heaviness, infestivity, gloom, weariness, taedium vitae, disgust of life, mal du pays, anhedonia, melancholy, sadness, il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums, vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism, la maladie sans maladie, despondency, slough of Despond, disconsolateness, hope deferred, blank despondency, voiceless woe, prostration of soul, broken heart, despair, cave of despair, cave of Trophonius demureness, gravity, solemnity, long face, grave face, hypochondriac, seek sorrow, self-tormentor, heautontimorumenos, malade imaginaire, medecin tant pis, croaker, pessimist, mope, mopus, affliction, sorry sight, memento mori, damper, wet blanket, Job's comforter, cheerless, joyless, spiritless, uncheerful, uncheery, unlively, unhappy, melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful, dreary, flat, dull, dull as a beetle, dull as ditchwater, depressing, melancholy as a gib cat, oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, down in one's luck, heavy-hearted, in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums, in doleful dumps, in bad humor, sullen, mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping, moody, glum, sulky, out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits, ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low, weary, discouraged, disheartened, desponding, chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen, sad, pensive, penseroso, tristful, dolesome, doleful, woebegone, lacrymose, lachrymose, in tears, melancholic, hypped, hypochondriacal, bilious, jaundiced, atrabilious, saturnine, splenetic, lackadaisical, serious, sedate, staid, stayed, grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot, sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, rueful, wan, long-faced, disconsolate, unconsolable, inconsolable, forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart, soul sick, heart sick, au desespoir, in despair, lost, overcome, broken down, borne down, bowed down, heartstricken, cut up, dashed, sunk, unnerved, unmanned, down fallen, downtrodden, broken-hearted, careworn, with a long face, with tears in one's eyes, sadly, the countenance falling, the heart failing, the heart sinking within one, a plague of sighing and grief, thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy, the sickening pang of hope deferred.

Cowardice

N cowardice, pusillanimity, cowardliness, timidity, effeminacy, poltroonery, baseness, dastardness, dastardy, abject fear, funk, Dutch courage, fear, white feather, faint heart, cold feet, yellow streak, coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant, shy cock, dunghill cock, coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say 'boo' to a goose, slink, Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak, alarmist, terrorist, pessimist, runagate, coward, cowardly, fearful, shy, timid, timorous, skittish, poor- spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate, weak-minded, infirm of purpose, weak-hearted, fainthearted, chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted, white- livered, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksop, smock-faced, unable to say 'boo' to a goose, dastard, dastardly, base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant, unwarlike, unsoldier-like, in face a lion but in heart a deer, unmanned, frightened, Int, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out, degeneres animos timor arguit.