Dictionary entry

Spiritless

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Spir″it‐less, a. 1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.

2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire.

A men so faint, so spiritless,

So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak.

3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. “The spiritless body.” Greenhill.

— Spir″it‐less‐ly, adv. — Spir″it‐less‐ness, n.