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| Main Entry: | listless1 |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | having no inclination or spirit; characterized by unwillingingness to exert |
| Etymology: | Middle English list 'desire' + less |
| Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.7) Copyright © 2003-2008 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC |
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| having or showing little or no interest in anything; languid; spiritless; indifferent: a listless mood; a listless handshake. |
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
| list·less
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adj. Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; lethargic: reacted to the latest crisis with listless resignation. [Middle English listles : probably from liste, desire (from listen, to desire; see list5) + -les, -lesse, -less.] list'less·ly adv., list'less·ness n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
listless
c.1440, from M.E. liste "pleasure, joy, delight," from O.E. lystan, from P.Gmc. *lustijanan "pleasure" (cf. Du. lusten, Ger. lüsten, O.N. lysta), from the same root as O.E. lust "desire" (see lust).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| listless | |
adjective | |
| 1. | lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored" |
| 2. | marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; "a dispirited and divided Party"; "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation" [syn: dispirited] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
listless [ˈlistlis] adjective
tired and without energy or interest
Example: listless children
Example: listless children
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
listless programming
In functional programming, a property of a function which allows it to be combined with other functions in a way that eliminates intermediate data structures, especially lists.
Phil Wadler's thesis gives the conditions for a function to be in listless form: each input list is traversed only once, one element at a time, from left to right. Each output list is generated once, one element at a time, from left to right. No other lists are generated or traversed.
Not all functions can be expressed in listless form (e.g. reverse).
(1995-02-22)
| The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe |
Listless
List"less\, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See Lust.] Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. " A listless unconcern." --Thomson. Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. --Dryden. I was listless, and desponding. --Swift. Syn: Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent. -- List"less*ly, adv. -- List"less*ness, n.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
listless
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