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The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
Archibald Hill

Meaning of "spiritless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPIRITLESS

spiritless  [ˈspɪrɪtlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPIRITLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spiritless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SPIRITLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of spiritless in the English dictionary

The definition of spiritless in the dictionary is lacking courage or liveliness; melancholic.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPIRITLESS


bitless
ˈbɪtlɪs
dateless
ˈdeɪtlɪs
delightless
dɪˈlaɪtlɪs
flightless
ˈflaɪtlɪs
gateless
ˈɡeɪtlɪs
grateless
ˈɡreɪtlɪs
hateless
ˈheɪtlɪs
lightless
ˈlaɪtlɪs
mateless
ˈmeɪtlɪs
meritless
ˈmɛrɪtlɪs
nightless
ˈnaɪtlɪs
pocketless
ˈpɒkɪtlɪs
poetless
ˈpəʊɪtlɪs
profitless
ˈprɒfɪtlɪs
respiteless
ˈrespaɪtlɪs
sightless
ˈsaɪtlɪs
sprightless
ˈspraɪtlɪs
stateless
ˈsteɪtlɪs
summitless
ˈsʌmɪtlɪs
witless
ˈwɪtlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPIRITLESS

spirit level
spirit of enterprise
spirit varnish
spirited
spiritedly
spiritedness
spiritful
spiritism
spiritist
spiritistic
spiritlessly
spiritlessness
spiritoso
spiritous
spiritousness
spirits
spirits of ammonia
spirits of hartshorn
spirits of salt
spirits of turpentine

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPIRITLESS

bottomless
costless
countless
crustless
doubtless
effortless
fruitless
heartless
heatless
limitless
meatless
pointless
relentless
restless
shirtless
shitless
spotless
tactless
textless
ventless
weightless

Synonyms and antonyms of spiritless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SPIRITLESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «spiritless» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of spiritless

Translation of «spiritless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPIRITLESS

Find out the translation of spiritless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spiritless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spiritless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死气沉沉
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin espíritu
570 millions of speakers

English

spiritless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेजान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بلا روح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безжизненный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

spiritless
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্জীব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans entrain
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tanpa jiwa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

temperamentlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無気力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무기력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanpa roh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không có linh hồn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆன்மாவற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंधविश्वासी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ruhsuz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avvilito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spiritless
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неживий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de spirit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άκαρδος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geeslose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spirit
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spiritless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPIRITLESS»

The term «spiritless» is regularly used and occupies the 99.214 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPIRITLESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spiritless

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4 QUOTES WITH «SPIRITLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spiritless.
1
James A. Baldwin
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
2
Jan Peter Balkenende
We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.
3
Jane Welsh Carlyle
One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
4
Archibald Hill
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPIRITLESS»

Discover the use of spiritless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spiritless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
As technically manifested in literature it is the power to touch with ease, grace, precision, any note in the gamut of human thought or emotion— Quiller-Couc h ) languid, languishing, languorous, lackadaisical, listless, spiritless, enervated are  ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
2
Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin
According to Haufniensis, all “spiritless” (Aandløshed) individuals—or rather, masses of people who resist becoming individuals—are “neither guilty nor not guilty” (94). As is written in The Sickness unto Death, their moods and motivations are ...
Jason A. Mahn, 2011
3
My Subconscious
Spiritless. Only when in silence can my mind see in through your cryptic nature The being you've possessed The life you've cheated and slept through The light of days have dispersed into nothingness and into it your body shall return You ...
Levi J. Davis
4
An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment
Whether our despair is spiritless or enthusiastic, it is a form of inertia, either the inertia after a full stop or the inertia that cannot stop. Indeed, in either the spiritless or the spirited form despair is a kind of exhaustion; for it is bound to the merely ...
James Luther Adams, George K. Beach, 1991
5
Studies in the Lexical Field of Expectation
To die as a coward (v phrase) die dunghill l756-l785. Yll.7.\ Spiritless The quality of spiritlessness (nouns) peakishness l5l9-al575; poor-spiritedness l662- One who is spiritless (noun) leveret l630(l). Spiritless (adjectives) hereblead OE poel;  ...
Louise Sylvester, 1994
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FRINGE NATIONS IN SOCCER
And this is natural, for, the day this note ofresentment is absent from the Englishman's report ofa defeat sustained by him you may be sure that he is become quite as spiritless as ourselves.[36] Again, we encounter the 'spiritless' Bengali, albeit ...
Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Sabyasachi Mallick, 2013
7
Imagining Law
diabolical because of its spiritless religious cruelty), we rob ourselves of any re- sistance to a false reverence for the Grand Inquisitor at the political pulpit. Cruelty must be grasped as a religious phenomenon: I hold dear my naive innocence ...
Renee J. Heberle
8
Christian Discourses: And, The Crisis and a Crisis in the ...
Kierkegaard describes this last human possibility as "spiritless- ness," or the " spiritless ignorance of God" (CD, 66). Kierkegaard dubs this path too a form of presumptuousness; even though, strictly speaking, presumptuousness "pertains  ...
Søren Kierkegaard, Robert L. Perkins, 2007
9
The New Answers Book 2
Australian Abongmies, American Indians, other cultures "dated" this old evolutionary dates of more than about 40,000 years (e.g., the Neandertal cave sites) as related to spiritless "hominids," which the Bible does not mention. However, these ...
Ken Ham, 2008
10
Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education
and drawling, the articulation very indistinct, and the whole spiritless and unintelligent. The spelling was tolerably good. They were examined on the lessons; this was done with some success. This class had committed to memory the shorter ...
Great Britain. Privy Council. Committee on Education, 1842

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPIRITLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spiritless is used in the context of the following news items.
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Review: Titus Andronicus Releases a Punk Opera
It's a strategy as counterintuitive as the basic idea of the punk opera: exterior music for interior words, spirited sounds for spiritless feelings. This is an album in ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Innings victory over Hampshire boosts Worcestershire's hopes of …
His sensible approach put the conditions into perspective and made sure it would not be a spiritless retreat to a third consecutive defeat for the first time since a ... «Evesham Journal, Jul 15»
3
'Poltergeist' review: Spiritless reboot is heeeere
The closing credits for Gil Kenan's remake of the 1982 horror classic "Poltergeist" feature the band Spoon covering the Cramps' 1980 punk classic "TV Set. «Chicago Tribune, May 15»
4
Ashley Out campaign announce 'Occupy St James Park' plan for …
Decisions that have resulted in a weak, unbalanced, spiritless squad and a manager woefully out of his depth. The club now finds itself in another late season ... «The Mag, May 15»
5
2015 AFL season: GWS Giants defeat Carlton at Etihad Stadium in …
This was as spiritless a performance as any team has produced this season. The Blues resurrected bruise-free football. The lack of physicality was shameful. «Herald Sun, May 15»
6
Fermanagh promoted after easing past spiritless Wexford in the …
Fermanagh's revival continues as their eight-point victory over a spiritless Wexford saw them promoted from Division Three at Wexford Park on Sunday. «Irish Times, Mar 15»
7
KPMG's viral morale meme
As the stereotype goes, accountants are a species of professional often seen as spiritless human calculators—and not as indispensable visionaries. “'Taxes ... «Fortune, Feb 15»
8
Delhi polls: Amit Shah pulls up BJP leaders for 'lacklustre' and …
In a meeting attended by several Union ministers besides Delhi BJP leaders, Shah called the party's campaign "spiritless" and directed them to go "full throttle" to ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jan 15»
9
After another Celtics loss, Brad Stevens blames himself
The second-year coach pointed to no one else other than himself as the reason his team played a lethargic and spiritless game for the first three quarters before ... «Boston Globe, Jan 15»
10
Miguel Zenón among Earshot's remaining don't-miss acts
Poncho offered the only real disappointment, when virtuoso saxophonist Greg Osby delivered a spiritless concert with a trio of young musicians not in his league ... «The Seattle Times, Nov 14»

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