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lassitude

/ˈlæsɪˌtjuːd/US/ˈlæsɪˌtud/

lassitude noun: lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, languor, listlessness.

Noun

lassitude (countable and uncountable, plural lassitudes)

  1. Lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, languor, listlessness
    • Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence.1833, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833-The Enchantress
    • Rufus Dawes, though his eyelids would scarcely keep open, and a terrible lassitude almost paralysed his limbs, eagerly drank in the whispered sentence.1874, Marcus Clarke, chapter VII, in For the Term of His Natural Life

lassitude meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

lassitude in Hindi

lethargy
अवसाद avsād, तंद्रा tandrā

lassitude in Tamil

தளர்ச்சி, களைப்பு, சோர்வு, உடலியங்க இயலாமை, சார்வு, வலுக்குறை

lassitude in Urdu

lassitude
کسک kasak

lassitude in Bengali

শারীরিক ও মানসিক ক্লান্তি
More languagesFewer languages
lassitude in Malayalam
ആലസ്യം, തളർച്ച, വാട്ടം, വതക്കം
lassitude in Kannada
ಆಯಾಸ, ದಣಿವು, ಬಳಲಿಕೆ, ಸುಸ್ತು
lassitude in Sanskrit
खेद kheda, तन्द्रा tandrā

Examples of lassitude in a sentence

  • The best part of this ancient ritual is that it tends to make one's colleagues look away—just in case you and your papers are going to interrupt their own lassitude.2004 August 16, “Is Slacking the Only Way to Survive the Office?”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh:
  • At Euro 2004 and the 2002 World Cup, Blatter commented this week, many stars were physically and mentally exhausted, and left an aftertaste of nonchalance and lassitude.2004 August 11, Rob Hughes, “Soccer: The Olympic Flame Running Low on Fuel”, in International Herald Tribune, Paris:

Forms of lassitude

plurallassitudes

Origin of lassitude

Borrowed from French lassitude, from Latin lassitūdō (“faintness, weariness”), from lassus (“faint, weary”), perhaps for *ladtus, and thus akin to English late.

Words formed from lassitude

Questions about lassitude

What does lassitude mean?
Lassitude means lethargy or lack of energy; fatigue, languor, listlessness.
What is lassitude in Hindi?
Lassitude in Hindi is अवसाद (avsād), तंद्रा (tandrā). See Lassitude meaning in Hindi.
How do you use lassitude in a sentence?
The best part of this ancient ritual is that it tends to make one's colleagues look away—just in case you and your papers are going to interrupt their own lassitude.
What part of speech is lassitude?
Lassitude is a noun.
How do you pronounce lassitude?
Lassitude is pronounced /ˈlæsɪˌtjuːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of lassitude?
The plural of lassitude is lassitudes.

Words near lassitude in the dictionary

  1. lassies
  2. Lassik
  3. lassis
  4. Lassiter
  5. Lassiters
  6. lassitude
  7. lassitudes
  8. lassitudinous
  9. lasslorn
  10. lasso
  11. lasso cell

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lassitude (page history and authors); lassitude (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کسک (Urdu) (page history and authors); lassitude (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lassitude (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lassitude (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खेद (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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