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41indolent — I adjective apathetic, cunctative, deses, dilatory, idle, ignavus, inactive, indifferent, indisposed to action, iners, lackadaisical, lacking vigor, laggard, languid, lax, lazy, leaden, lethargic, listless, loafing, motionless, negligent, otiose …
42listless — I adjective absent, abstracted, apathetic, benumbed, careless, despondent, disinterested, distant, dormant, dreamy, dull, exanimate, faineant, faint, heedless, idle, impassive, inactive, inanimate, inattentive, incurious, indifferent, indolent,… …
43torpid — I adjective apathetic, benumbed, comatose, dead, disinterested, dormant, drowsy, dull, heavy, idle, impervious, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, iners, inert, inexcitable, insensate, insensible, languid, languorous, lazy, leaden,… …
44unproductive — I adjective abortive, arid, barren, doomed, dry, effete, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, futile, impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, infecund, infecundus, infertile, inoperative, issueless, jejune, nugatory, otiose, profitless,… …
45unworkable — I adjective effort wasting, impossible, impracticable, impractical, inadequate, incapable of being done, inconceivable, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, infeasible, inoperable, insurmountable, otiose, out of the question, useless,… …
46useless — I adjective barren, effete, fatuous, feckless, frivolous, fruitless, functionless, futile, idle, impotent, impracticable, inadequate, incapable, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inoperative, inutile, invalid, needless …
47negotiate — [16] The etymological notion underlying negotiate is of ‘not being at leisure’, and hence of ‘being busy’. The word comes ultimately from Latin negōtium ‘business’, negro 348 which was a compound formed from the negative particle neg and ōtium… …
48negotiate — [16] The etymological notion underlying negotiate is of ‘not being at leisure’, and hence of ‘being busy’. The word comes ultimately from Latin negōtium ‘business’, which was a compound formed from the negative particle neg and ōtium ‘leisure’… …
49vain — [vān] adj. [OFr < L vanus, empty, vain: see WANT] 1. having no real value or significance; worthless, empty, idle, hollow, etc. [vain pomp] 2. without force or effect; futile, fruitless, unprofitable, unavailing, etc. [a vain endeavor] 3.… …
50wasted — adjective 1. not used to good advantage (Freq. 1) squandered money cannot be replaced a wasted effort • Syn: ↑squandered • Similar to: ↑lost 2. serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being …
