What are the opposite words for enthusiastic?
The antonyms for the word "enthusiastic" are numerous and varied, ranging from subtle to overt. Some of the most commonly used antonyms include indifferent, apathetic, uninterested, uninvolved, lethargic, dispassionate, and blase. These words all indicate a lack of enthusiasm or passion for something, and may be used to describe people, events, or feelings. Other antonyms for enthusiastic might include bored, unenthusiastic, unexcited, jaded, or even depressed. Whatever the antonym, it describes an absence of the positive qualities of enthusiasm, and often suggests a less than desirable state of mind or being.
- bored
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unwilling
- disinclined,
- unaccommodating,
- uncheerful,
- unobliging,
- unready,
- against the grain,
- against grain,
- be grudging,
- be-grudging,
- dis obliging,
- dis-obliging,
- in docile,
- in-docile,
- more begrudging,
- more unaccommodating,
- more uncheerful,
- more uninclined,
- more unobliging,
- more unwishful,
- most compelled,
- most unaccommodating,
- most unready,
- most unwishful,
- un accommodating,
- un cheerful,
- un cooperative,
- un inclined,
- un obliging,
- un ready,
- un willing,
- un wishful,
- un-accommodating,
- un-cheerful,
- un-inclined,
- un-obliging,
- un-ready,
- un-willing,
- un-wishful,
- uninclined,
- unwishful.
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cold
- algid,
- brumal,
- frore,
- hiemal,
- icebox,
- iced,
- unimpassioned,
- matter of fact,
- hawkish,
- coldblooded,
- matter-of-fact,
- be numbed,
- be-numbed,
- below freezing,
- below zero,
- cold blooded,
- frorer,
- frorest,
- have goose bumps,
- in different,
- in hospitable,
- in tense,
- in tenser,
- in-clement,
- in-different,
- in-hospitable,
- in-tense,
- in-tenser,
- in-tensest,
- more blasting,
- more brumal,
- more chilled,
- more gelid,
- more hawkish,
- more hiemal,
- more nipping,
- more numbed,
- more siberian,
- more unimpassioned,
- most algid,
- most blasting,
- most brumal,
- most chilled,
- most gelid,
- most hawkish,
- most hiemal,
- most hyperborean,
- most icebox,
- most iced,
- most nipping,
- most numbed,
- most numbing,
- most siberian,
- most unimpassioned,
- one dog night,
- one-dog night,
- onedog night,
- re served,
- re-served,
- rimier,
- rimiest,
- sleetier,
- sleetiest,
- two dog night,
- two-dog night,
- twodog night,
- un concerned,
- un demonstrative,
- un feeling,
- un impassioned,
- un responsive,
- un sympathetic,
- un-concerned,
- un-demonstrative,
- un-feeling,
- un-impassioned,
- un-moved,
- un-responsive,
- un-sympathetic.
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slow
- slow-moving,
- snaillike,
- more dawdling,
- more plodding,
- more postponing,
- more procrastinating,
- more slow moving,
- more slow-moving,
- more tortoiselike,
- most dawdling,
- most plodding,
- most procrastinating,
- most slow moving,
- most slow-moving,
- most slowmoving,
- most tortoiselike,
- slow moving,
- slowmoving,
- tortoiselike.
- procrastinating
- disappointed
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enervated
- enervated,
- limp,
- out of condition,
- unnerved,
- out of shape,
- de vitalized,
- de-vitalized,
- gone seed,
- gone to seed,
- in capacitated,
- in-capacitated,
- more devitalized,
- more enfeebled,
- more prostrated,
- more sapped,
- more undermined,
- more unnerved,
- more vitiated,
- most devitalized,
- most enfeebled,
- most prostrated,
- most sapped,
- most undermined,
- most unnerved,
- most vitiated,
- on ropes,
- on the ropes,
- out condition,
- out gas,
- out of gas,
- out shape,
- un nerved,
- un-nerved,
- under mined,
- under-mined,
- washed out.
- blase
-
dilatory
- behindhand,
- lax,
- neglectful,
- slowest,
- Moratory,
- Snail-like,
- de laying,
- de liberate,
- de-laying,
- de-liberate,
- more dallying,
- more laggard,
- more loitering,
- more moratory,
- more snail like,
- more snail-like,
- more snaillike,
- more tarrying,
- more time wasting,
- more time-wasting,
- more timewasting,
- most dallying,
- most laggard,
- most loitering,
- most moratory,
- most snail like,
- most snail-like,
- most snaillike,
- most tarrying,
- most time wasting,
- most time-wasting,
- most timewasting,
- snail like,
- time wasting,
- time-wasting,
- timewasting,
- un hastier,
- un hastiest,
- un hasty,
- un hurried,
- un-hastier,
- un-hastiest,
- un-hasty,
- un-hurried,
- unhastier,
- unhastiest,
- unhasty.
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disillusioned
- punctured,
- undeceived,
- Worldlywise,
- disenthralled,
- brought down earth,
- brought down to earth,
- de bunked,
- de-bunked,
- dis abused,
- dis enchanted,
- dis enthralled,
- dis entranced,
- dis illusioned,
- dis-abused,
- dis-enchanted,
- dis-enthralled,
- dis-entranced,
- dis-illusioned,
- disentranced,
- let-down,
- mondaine,
- more debunked,
- more disabused,
- more disenthralled,
- more disentranced,
- more let down,
- more let-down,
- more letdown,
- more mondaine,
- more punctured,
- more shattered,
- more undeceived,
- most debunked,
- most disabused,
- most disenthralled,
- most disentranced,
- most let down,
- most let-down,
- most letdown,
- most mondaine,
- most punctured,
- most shattered,
- most undeceived,
- out love,
- out of love,
- sadder and wiser,
- sadder wiser,
- un deceived,
- un-deceived.
- listless
- tepid
- unenthusiastic
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uninterested
- bored,
- uninterested,
- Hard-hearted,
- uncurious,
- bored stiff,
- going through motions,
- hard hearted,
- more hard hearted,
- more hard-hearted,
- more uncurious,
- most hard hearted,
- most hard-hearted,
- most uncurious,
- re-mote,
- thick skinned,
- thickskinned,
- un curious,
- un interested,
- un involved,
- un-curious,
- un-interested,
- un-involved,
- with drawn,
- with-drawn.
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disinclined
- uneager,
- Shying,
- anti pathetic,
- anti-pathetic,
- dis inclined,
- dis-inclined,
- in disposed,
- in-disposed,
- more balking,
- more objecting,
- more protesting,
- more shying,
- more sticking,
- more uneager,
- most balking,
- most objecting,
- most protesting,
- most shying,
- most sticking,
- most uneager,
- not in mood,
- not in the mood,
- not mood,
- not the mood,
- pro testing,
- pro-testing,
- un eager,
- un-eager.
- halfhearted
- indolent
- lackadaisical
-
lackluster
- ho-hum,
- lusterless,
- matte,
- sombre,
- draggier,
- draggiest,
- draggy,
- ho hum,
- hohum,
- mattest,
- more ho hum,
- more ho-hum,
- more hohum,
- more lusterless,
- more muted,
- more nothing,
- more pabulum,
- more zero,
- most ho hum,
- most ho-hum,
- most hohum,
- most lusterless,
- most muted,
- most nothing,
- most pabulum,
- most zero,
- sombrer,
- sombrest,
- un imaginative,
- un inspired,
- un-imaginative,
- un-inspired.
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lukewarm
- tepid,
- wishy-washy,
- warmish,
- Blood-warm,
- blood warm,
- bloodwarm,
- in decisive,
- in-decisive,
- milk warm,
- milkwarm,
- more blood warm,
- more blood-warm,
- more bloodwarm,
- more milk warm,
- more milk-warm,
- more milkwarm,
- most blood warm,
- most blood-warm,
- most bloodwarm,
- most milk warm,
- most milk-warm,
- most milkwarm,
- most warmish,
- un committed,
- un decided,
- un resolved,
- un-committed,
- un-decided,
- un-resolved,
- wishy washy,
- wishywashy.
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nonchalant
- unexcited,
- Disimpassioned,
- Unimpressible,
- dis impassioned,
- dis passionate,
- dis-impassioned,
- dis-passionate,
- more disimpassioned,
- more unexcited,
- more unimpressible,
- most disimpassioned,
- most unexcited,
- most unimpressible,
- un caring,
- un emotional,
- un excited,
- un flappable,
- un impressible,
- un perturbed,
- un ruffled,
- un troubled,
- un-caring,
- un-emotional,
- un-excited,
- un-impressible,
- un-perturbed,
- un-ruffled,
- un-troubled.
- reluctant
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sophisticated
- couth,
- stagy,
- streetwise,
- uptown,
- wise to,
- world-weary,
- JETSET,
- stagier,
- stagiest,
- wellbred,
- in the know,
- been around,
- co uther,
- co-uther,
- couther,
- couthest,
- in know,
- in to,
- jet-set,
- more citified,
- more in to,
- more into,
- more jet set,
- more jet-set,
- more jetset,
- more schooled,
- more streetwise,
- more uptown,
- more world weary,
- more world-weary,
- more worldweary,
- most citified,
- most into,
- most jet set,
- most jetset,
- most schooled,
- most streetwise,
- most uptown,
- most world weary,
- most world-weary,
- most worldweary,
- re fined,
- switched on,
- up town,
- up-town,
- well bred,
- world weary,
- worldly wise,
- worldweary.
- all
- dull, lifeless
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chilly, freezing
- cold.
- interested, excited
- half-hearted
- without enthusiasm
- careless, indifferent
- spiritless, without energy
- slightly heated
- easygoing, laid back
- unenthusiastic, unwilling
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unhurried, lazy
- slow.
- cosmopolitan, cultured
- not in the mood
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- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
hath number
- Antonyms:
- estimate, guess, subtract.