States and conditions
Synonyms for listless
Synonyms for listless: apathetic and dispirited. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for listless
Interchangeable with listless in this sense
Audited under listless's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one listless carries in that sense.
- apatheticadjective, in the sense "lacking energy or enthusiasm, in a state of apathy"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name listless as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- dispiriteddispirited is an adjective in the sense "marked by low spirits"
The first group is filed under listless's own sense. The second reaches listless from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
lacking energy or enthusiasm, in a state of apathy
After the fever broke, the child remained listless and uninterested in her toys.
The true synonym
apathetic
Same sentence, swapped: After the fever broke, the child remained apathetic and uninterested in her toys.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for listless in the sentence quoted.
- fretful
- querulous
- boisterous
Where listless turns up in the game
listless is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where listless is the trap
- pluckyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is spirited, in the sense "showing determined courage against difficult odds", so listless is there to be ruled out.
- voraciousadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is gluttonous, in the sense "having a huge appetite; eager to consume great amounts of food", and listless is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play listless
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so listless reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. listless carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.