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spiritless

Speech parts

1. spiritless - Adjective

2. spiritless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.

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

Having no breath; extinct; dead.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. James Baldwin

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls. Archibald Hill

May you be turned every man of you into earth and water as you sit spiritless and inglorious in your places. Homer

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. Jan Peter Balkenende

It is spiritless to think that you cannot attain to that which you have seen and heard the masters attain. The masters are men. You are also a man. If you think that you will be inferior in doing something, you will be on that road very soon. Yamamoto Tsunetomo

compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of those of others Source: Internet

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