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LACKADAISICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lackadaisical mean?
• LACKADAISICAL (adjective)
The adjective LACKADAISICAL has 2 senses:
1. lacking spirit or liveliness
2. idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way
Familiarity information: LACKADAISICAL used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking spirit or liveliness
Synonyms:
dreamy; lackadaisical; languid; languorous
Context example:
a hot languorous afternoon
Similar:
lethargic; unenergetic (deficient in alertness or activity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way
Context example:
a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town
Similar:
idle (not in action or at work)
Context examples
There is no doubt whatever that I was a lackadaisical young spooney; but there was a purity of heart in all this, that prevents my having quite a contemptuous recollection of it, let me laugh as I may.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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