Vocabulary
Lethargy
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a lack of energy and enthusiasm.
Urdu meaning
غنودگی، طویل نیند، کمزوری
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Ironically, the very sectors that have received sustained donor support remain most inefficient, resulting in policy lethargy, institutional decay, and misuse of resources.
- As a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan cannot afford lethargy.
- As a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan should not show such prolonged lethargy.
- As a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Pakistan should not show such prolonged lethargy.
- Hopefully, all the gratuitous patronage being showered on Arshad will shake the government out of its lethargy and schools out of their unconscionable neglect of sports as an integral part of education.
Synonyms
sluggishness, inertia, inactivity, inaction, slowness, torpor, torpidity, lifelessness,
Antonyms
vigour, energy, animation
Curator example
“there was an air of lethargy about him”
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