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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

lackadaisical
    adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt";
           "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot
           languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical,
           languid, languorous]
    2: idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was
       annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical";
       "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"-
       P.G.Wodehouse

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

lackadaisical \lack`a*dai"si*cal\ (l[a^]k`[.a]*d[=a]"z[i^]*kal),
   a. [From Lackadaisy, interj.]
   1. Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental; dreamy.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Lacking spirit or liveliness; lethargic; listless;
      languid.
      [PJC]

   3. Indolent; lazy; idle, especially in a dreamy manner.
      [PJC] -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for lackadaisical:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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