Without vigour or animation, lifeless.

In extended use: (originally) †lacking a vital spark, containing no (physical or spiritual) sustenance or nourishment (obsolete); (later in…

Not lively, active, or quick-witted.

Deprived or destitute of animation or courage; spiritless.

Wanting in energy and spirit; lifeless, dull. Also, out of spirits, low, dejected, depressed.

Not sprightly or lively.

Lacking dynamic qualities; characterized by the absence of animation, energy, or zest. Of a person, or his or her behaviour, speech, etc.

Dead while yet alive; alive, but without animation; dull, inactive, spiritless.

figurative. Without energy, life, or animation.

Not animated, enlivened, or inspired.

Without the activity or motion of life (literal and figurative); spiritless, inactive, dull.

Dull, inanimate; not enlivened.

Of an action, condition, etc.: characterized by lack of vigour or energy.

= inanimate, adj. 2.

Deprived of its essential quality or vigour; destitute of spirit or animation, spiritless. Obsolete.

dead and gone (usually in literal sense); hence dead-and-goneness. Also dead and alive (see dead-alive, adj.); dead and buried; dead and done (for,…

Lacking in vitality; not living. Also figurative.

Lacking energy, vigour, or spirit.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Lacking energy, vigour, or liveliness. Cf. zip, n.1 1b.

Of things, in various transferred and figurative uses: dull, lifeless, lacking in vigour, sluggish; (of steering) unresponsive.

Not dead; alive. Also, not quite dead but not fully alive, dead-and-alive. In vampirism, clinically dead but not yet at rest. Also absol. as n.