different between listless vs negligent
listless
English
Etymology
From Middle English lystles, equivalent to list (“desire”) +? -less. Compare Dutch lusteloos (“lethargic, listless”). Doublet of lustless.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?stl?s/
Adjective
listless (comparative more listless, superlative most listless)
- Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
- 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, ch. 18:
- I passed whole days on the lake alone in a little boat, watching the clouds and listening to the rippling of the waves, silent and listless.
- 1861, Charlotte M. Yonge, The Stokesley Secret, ch. 6:
- What an entirely different set of beings were those Stokesley children in lesson-time. . . . Poor, listless, stolid, deplorable logs, with bowed backs and crossed ankles, pipy voices and heavy eyes!
- 1901, William Somerset Maugham, The Hero, ch. 21:
- The scene with Mrs. Wallace had broken his spirit, and he was listless now, indifferent to what happened.
- 2005 Nov. 29, Aryn Baker, "John Hardy: Bali Guy," Time:
- “Listless, inattentive, distracted,” he recited. “A daydreamer. Tries his best, but is too slow.”
- 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, ch. 18:
Derived terms
- listlessly
- listlessness
Translations
Anagrams
- slitless
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negligent
English
Etymology
From Middle English necligent, negligent, from Old French negligent, from Latin neglig?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n??.l?.d??nt/
Adjective
negligent (comparative more negligent, superlative most negligent)
- Careless, without appropriate or sufficient attention.
- (law) Culpable due to negligence.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:careless
Related terms
- negligence
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin neglig?ns.
Adjective
negligent (masculine and feminine plural negligents)
- negligent
Related terms
- negligència
- negligir
Further reading
- “negligent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “negligent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “negligent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “negligent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Verb
negligent
- third-person plural future active indicative of neglig?
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