Lackadaisical In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "Lackadaisical", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Caroline Tran calendar 2020-10-22 08:10

Meaning of Lackadaisical

Synonyms:

Half-hearted , your heart isn't in it , spiritless

Lackadaisical adjective formal

Being lazy; lack of enthusiasm and effort

Nobody wants to teach a lackadaisical student.

There were times Peter seemed a little lackadaisical.

Due to the lackadaisical attitude of a number of employees, the quality of the company's customer service has significantly decreased.

Other phrases about:

Get my mojo working
To have confidence, energy, enthusiasm or enormous charm for something
rest/sit on your laurels

To be satisfied with past achievements and stop trying to achieve something new..

no half measures

Adequate measures or actions

pick and shovel work
A boring and painstaking work.
fire in (one's)/the belly

Enthusiasm and perseverance

Origin of Lackadaisical

Lackadaisical may now be a single word. However, its original form derived from a phrase, 'alack a day' or 'alack the day' which originally meant “Shame or reproach to the day!”. At some point in the eighteenth century, the form lackadaisy appeared,  with lackadaisical coming along shortly afterwards for somebody who regularly used the cry. At first it meant that the person was feebly sentimental rather than lazy, but then it was used to espress the idea of somebody who was affectedly languishing, and thence to someone merely lazy.

 

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