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Date: 1400-1500
Origin: list 'pleasure, desire' (13-19 centuries) (from Old English lystan 'to please, wish') + -less

listless

 adjective
     
list‧less
feeling tired and not interested in things:
The heat was making me listless.
—listlessly adverb
—listlessness noun [uncountable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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