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Definition
lacking energyMore rarely, lethargy can refer to inactivity or even a state of unconsciousness.
- I'm hoping a cold iced tea will help me get past this lethargic feeling.
lethargic = lacking energy
- Bullfrogs became lethargic with the first cold nights.
- Large lunches make me feel lethargic in the afternoon.
- the lethargy of siesta timeGabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- It was not a very easy matter to rouse him: so lethargic and heavy were his slumbers.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
- There's an air of expectation in the psychology lecture hall as two hundred or so kids trod in, feeling none of their traditional lethargy.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- I would have got out to make certain on the point, but some leaden lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- Winston roused himself a little from his lethargy.George Orwell -- 1984
- Warming himself ever so briefly had shaken away the lethargy and resignation and restored his will to survive.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- Problems this year were first noticed when the boy developed motor coordination problems and mental lethargy which increased until he fell into a coma.Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
- Arising lethargic and groggy after my sleepless night at Camp Three, I was slow to dress, melt water, and get out of the tent on Thursday morning, May 9.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- The sea moved in a lethargic way, as if already exhausted by the oncoming heat.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- A lethargy had settled on him, and a little gray hopelessness.John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
- He helped her up from the bed, ignoring the lethargy of her movements, and put his arms around her.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- In fact, I'm a model patient, my lethargy taken for restraint, obedience to the doctors' orders.Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
- Long after he had finished eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister...Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis
- Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency.Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
- The Fugees gathered their gear lethargically.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- ...were playing a lethargic game of Ping-Pong.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- From there he wasted very quickly to a lethargic little bundle of skin-covered bones and a gaunt, skin-covered skull.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
lethargic = sluggish (not moving much due to a lack of energy)
lethargic = sluggish (lacking energy)
lethargy = lack of energy
lethargic = lacking energy
lethargy = lack of energy
lethargy = a state with a lack of energy
lethargy = lack of energy
lethargy = lack of energy
lethargy = a state with a lack of energy
lethargic = without energy
lethargic = sluggish (without energy)
lethargy = lack of energy
lethargy = lack of energy
lethargy = lack of energy
lethargic = without energy
lethargy = inactivity (lack of energy)
lethargically = without energy
lethargic = lacking energy
lethargic = lacking energy