different between lethargic vs lethe

English

Alternative forms

• lethargick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (l?thargikós), from ???????? (l?thargos, “forgetful, lethargic”), from ???? (l?th?, “a forgetting, forgetfulness”) (from which Lethe (“river in Hades”)) + ????? (argós, “not working”)

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /l?????d??k/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /l?????d??k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l?????.d??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??k

Adjective

lethargic (comparative more lethargic, superlative most lethargic)

1. sluggish, slow
2. indifferent, apathetic

Synonyms

• torpid
• lazy
• unmoving

Related terms

• alethic, alethiology, philalethia
• lethargy
• Lethe

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li??i/

Etymology 1

From Latin L?th?, from Ancient Greek ???? (L?th?, “forgetfulness”).

Noun

lethe (usually uncountable, plural lethes)

1. Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
2. Dissimulation
   • 1980, Joseph J. Kockelmans, On Heidegger and Language, Northwestern University Press (?ISBN), p. 241:

     What does it mean to say that the stream of silence originates in lethe? It means, above all, that the stream has its source (Quelle) in that which has not yet been said and which must remain unsaid: the "unsaid."

Derived terms

• lethean

Related terms

• lethargy, lethargic

Etymology 2

Possibly influenced by Latin l?tum (“killing”).

Noun

lethe (usually uncountable, plural lethes)

1. (obsolete, rare) Death.

References

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003)
• “lethe”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Ethel, Leeth, Theel, ethel

Middle English

Noun

lethe (plural lethes)

1. Alternative form of lyth

Old Irish

Noun

lethe

1. Alternative spelling of leithe

Mutation