English words for 'Deprived of or showing a decrease in motivation.'
Closest matches for "Deprived of or showing a decrease in motivation." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
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name
- Laziness; low motivation.
- Gout.
- Football (soccer) hooliganism.
- Gambling.
- Depression (especially suicidal).
- Syphilis.
- Bronchitis.
- Haemophilia.
- Sweating sickness.
- Hypochondria.
- Poor industrial relations and the resulting economic weakness.
- Tuberculosis.
- Rickets.
- Masochism, especially a fondness for flagellation.
- Homosexuality.
noun
- a feeling of lack of interest or energy
- oppressively still air
- a relaxed comfortable feeling
- inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
- (uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
- (uncountable) Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
- (uncountable) Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
noun
- a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
- (especially) Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- (collective, rare, countable) A group of bears.
- (paleontology) Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
adj
adj
intj
noun
pron
adv
noun
- a negative motivational influence
- the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
- a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- An action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
- (specifically) Nuclear deterrence: discouraging nuclear attack through the threat of nuclear retaliation.
- The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
- The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
- The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment.
adj
- unresponsive to stimulation
- incapable of physical sensation
- barely able to be perceived
- unaware of or indifferent to
- Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
- Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
- Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
- Unable to be perceived by the senses.
- Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
adj
prep_phrase
adj
- unresponsive to stimulation
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- not marked by the use of reason
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.
- Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
- Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
noun
- the condition of being motivated
- the act of motivating; providing incentive
- the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
- An incentive or reason for doing something.
- The action of motivating.
- Something which motivates.
- (advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.
- Willingness of action especially in behavior.
verb
noun
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
- disinclined to work or exertion
- Showing a lack of effort or care.
- Droopy.
- (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- Sluggish; slow-moving.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
- (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
- moving slowly and gently
noun
verb
adj
adj
- disinclined to work or exertion
- producing no result or effect
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- Having no effect.
- Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
- Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
- Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
- Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
noun
- (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
- The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
- (US, slang) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
- A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
- (aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
- (automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
verb
- depress or discourage
- make cool or cooler
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
noun
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
adj
verb
noun
adj
noun
- a feeling of lack of interest or energy
- oppressively still air
- a relaxed comfortable feeling
- inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
- (uncountable) Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
- (uncountable) Heavy humidity and stillness of the air.
- (uncountable) Melancholy caused by lovesickness, sadness, etc.; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) Listless indolence or inactivity, especially if enjoyable or relaxing; dreaminess; (countable) an instance of this.
- (uncountable) A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude; (countable) an instance of this.
verb
noun
- a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits
- (uncountable) Laziness; slowness in the mindset; disinclination to action or labour.
- (especially) Any herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Choloepodidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
- (collective, rare, countable) A group of bears.
- (paleontology) Any of the extinct group of ground sloths.
noun
- a negative motivational influence
- the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
- a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- An action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
- (specifically) Nuclear deterrence: discouraging nuclear attack through the threat of nuclear retaliation.
- The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
- The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
- The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment.
noun
- the condition of being motivated
- the act of motivating; providing incentive
- the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
- An incentive or reason for doing something.
- The action of motivating.
- Something which motivates.
- (advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.
- Willingness of action especially in behavior.
noun
- (psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
- The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
- (US, slang) Someone whose brains have figuratively been burned out by drugs.
- A person who has the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest.
- (aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor after exhausting its fuel or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
- (automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
verb
noun
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
verb
- depress or discourage
- make cool or cooler
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
noun
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
adj
verb
noun
adj
adj
intj
noun
pron
adv
adj
- unresponsive to stimulation
- incapable of physical sensation
- barely able to be perceived
- unaware of or indifferent to
- Incapable of emotional feeling; callous; apathetic.
- Unable to be understood; unintelligible.
- Incapable or deprived of physical sensation.
- Incapable of mental feeling; indifferent.
- Unable to be perceived by the senses.
- Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
adj
prep_phrase
adj
- unresponsive to stimulation
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- not marked by the use of reason
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.
- Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
- Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
adj
noun
verb
adj
- Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
- disinclined to work or exertion
- Showing a lack of effort or care.
- Droopy.
- (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
- Sluggish; slow-moving.
- (optometry) Of an eye, squinting because of a weakness of the eye muscles.
- Causing or characterised by idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
- (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
- moving slowly and gently
noun
verb
adj
adj
- disinclined to work or exertion
- producing no result or effect
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- Having no effect.
- Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
- Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
- Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
- Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.