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English Dictionary: listless	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for listless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
listless adj lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored" marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; "a dispirited and divided Party"; "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation" Synonym(s): dispirited, listless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Listless \List"less\, a. [OE. listles, lustles. See {Lust}.] Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless. [bd] A listless unconcern.[b8] --Thomson. Benumbed with cold, and listless of their gain. --Dryden. I was listless, and desponding. --Swift. Syn: Heedless; careless; indifferent; vacant; uninterested; languid; spiritless; supine; indolent. -- {List"lessly}, adv. -- {List"lessness}, n.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
listless In {functional programming}, a property of a {function} which allows it to be combined with other functions in a way that eliminates intermediate data structures, especially lists. {Phil Wadler}'s thesis gives the conditions for a function to be in listless form: each input list is traversed only once, one element at a time, from left to right. Each output list is generated once, one element at a time, from left to right. No other lists are generated or traversed. Not all functions can be expressed in listless form (e.g. reverse). (1995-02-22)