lackadaisical adj

1 lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, languid, languorous]

2 idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse

English

Etymology

From the archaic interjection lackaday, lackadaisy.

Pronunciation

• /ˌlækəˈdeizikəl/

Adjective

1. Showing no interest or enthusiasm.

   the lackadaisical look on his face

Synonyms

• languid, listless, unenthusiastic, uninterested

Related terms

• lackaday
• lackadaisically
• lackadaisicalness

Translations

Micawberish, apathetic, ataractic, backward, benumbed, blase, bored, careless, casual, cold, cool, dallying, dead, debilitated, degage, delaying, devil-may-care, dilatory, dillydallying, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardful, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, easy, easygoing, emasculated, enervated, exanimate, faineant, foot-dragging, free and easy, heavy, hebetudinous, heedless, idle, inactive, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, indolent, inert, inexcitable, insouciant, jaded, laggard, lagging, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lazy, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limp, lingering, listless, loitering, lukewarm, lumpish, mindless, moribund, negligent, nonchalant, numb, offhand, passive, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, pooped, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, reckless, regardless, remiss, romantic, sated, sentimental, shuffling, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tepid, torpid, turned-off, unanxious, uncaring, unconcerned, undiscriminating, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexcitable, unexcited, unimpressed, uninspired, uninterested, unmindful, unmoved, unsolicitous, vegetable, vegetative, wan, weary, world-weary