LETHARGIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lethargic mean? 

• LETHARGIC (adjective)
  The adjective LETHARGIC has 1 sense:

1. deficient in alertness or activity

  Familiarity information: LETHARGIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LETHARGIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deficient in alertness or activity

Synonyms:

lethargic; unenergetic

Context example:

bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights

Similar:

dazed; foggy; groggy; logy; stuporous (stunned or confused and slow to react (as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion))

dreamy; lackadaisical; languid; languorous (lacking spirit or liveliness)

listless (lacking zest or vivacity)

Also:

inactive (not active physically or mentally)

Antonym:

energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)

Derivation:

lethargy (inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy)

 Context examples 

It was certainly odd that whenever she got into that lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her; but that when she waked she clutched them close.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She continued either delirious or lethargic; and the doctor forbade everything which could painfully excite her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She complains of difficulty in breathing satisfactorily at times, and of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but regarding which she can remember nothing.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I found the sick-room unwatched, as I had expected: no nurse was there; the patient lay still, and seemingly lethargic; her livid face sunk in the pillows: the fire was dying in the grate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar as of old; the flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries; there seemed none of that unity of purpose between the parts of the body which marks even lethargic sanity.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A massive and lethargic woman, who had been urging Daisy to play golf with her at the local club tomorrow, spoke in Miss Baedeker's defence: "Oh, she's all right now. When she's had five or six cocktails she always starts screaming like that. I tell her she ought to leave it alone."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)