lethargic

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ləˈθɑː.d͡ʒɪk/    美 /ləˈθɑɹd͡ʒɪk/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Sluggish, slow.
    — [That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.
  2. Indifferent, apathetic.

词形变化

more lethargic comparative most lethargic superlative lethargick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
antilethargic lethargically lethargicness
相关词
alethic alethiology lethargy Lethe philalethia

词源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ληθαργικός (lēthargikós), from λήθαργος (lḗthargos, “forgetful, lethargic”), from λήθη (lḗthē, “a forgetting, forgetfulness”) (from which Lethe (“river in Hades”)) + ἀργός (argós, “not working”). By surface analysis, lethargy + -ic.
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