word | lethargic |
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definition | (1) Lazily sluggish. (2) Indifferent or apathetic. |
eg_sentence | Once again the long Sunday dinner had left most of the family feeling stuffed and lethargic. |
explanation | The philosopher Plato wrote that before a dead person could leave the underworld to begin a new life, he or she had to drink from the river Lethe, whose name means “forgetfulness” in Greek, and forget all aspects of one's former life and the time spent in Hades (usually pretty awful, according to Plato). But lethargic and its noun lethargy never actually refer to forgetting; instead, they describe the weak, ghostly state of the dead spirits—so weak that they may require a drink of blood before they can even speak |
IPA | ləˈθɑrʤɪk |
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