Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking spirit, liveliness, or interest; languid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sentimentally woebegone; languid; listless; affected. See extract under lackthought.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental; dreamy.
- adjective Lacking spirit or liveliness; lethargic; listless; languid.
- adjective Indolent; lazy; idle, especially in a dreamy manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Showing no
interest orenthusiasm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective lacking spirit or liveliness
- adjective idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Critics ravaged him for what they called his lackadaisical approach to such party-building activities as filling precinct committee openings, mounting a technology-driven Election Day get-out-the-vote operation and absentee ballot and voter registration initiatives.
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Brian Campbell probably developed a few bad habits during what he described as a lackadaisical week of practice.
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He noted that due to what he termed the lackadaisical attitude of the Minister toward the suggestion of the council, the private aircraft industry has moved to establish its own search and rescue unit.
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"I think we came in lackadaisical in the first half," Kansas
NCAA Division I College Football - Kansas State vs. Arizona State 2002
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"I think we came in lackadaisical in the first half," Kansas
NCAA Division I College Football - Kansas State vs. Arizona State 2002
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Mr Kirkhope added: The security in the European Parliament has long been well-known as lackadaisical, but this is really ceasing to be a joke.
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At the same time, the necessary publicity of the new rules has been lackadaisical, which is typical of Indonesia ....
James Fallows 2009
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Carragher later complained that the defending had been "lackadaisical", but claimed "we have kissed and made up in the dressing room".
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Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration's response to the spill has been "lackadaisical" and that Obama was "naive" to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
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In recent days, a host of voices (Republican and Democratic alike) began speaking out more forcefully with concern that the administration had taken a seemingly "lackadaisical" approach towards containing and cleaning up the Gulf spill.
oroboros commented on the word lackadaisical
just learned that this word is from the interjection 'lack-a-daisy' and 'spozed to mean 'vapidly sentimental'; interesting...
December 15, 2006
librarymistress commented on the word lackadaisical
what a great word - thanks for sharing. Thinking hard to find an opportunity to use it...
October 30, 2007
sionnach commented on the word lackadaisical
"I have no recollection of the last twenty-four hours," said Tom lackadaisically.
"Miss Buchanan sends her regrets that she will not be able to join us for dinner', said Nick lackadaisically.
October 30, 2007
dlarson commented on the word lackadaisical
It's really too bad that people show a lackadaisical approach to spelling when they say 'lacksadaisical.' Know that I mean?
December 7, 2009