What are the opposite words for lively?
The antonyms for the word lively could include words such as dull, lifeless, sluggish, lazy, lethargic, and passive. These words indicate a lack of energy or enthusiasm compared to the vibrant and spirited nature of the word lively. Other antonyms may include words such as flat, stagnant, uneventful, monotonous, or unexciting. These words suggest a lack of variety or excitement, and a lack of animation or dynamism. In essence, the antonyms for lively serve to convey the opposite of an energetic or active state, often suggesting a more subdued, restrained, or lackluster experience.
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dead
- dead,
- deceased,
- no more,
- pushing up daisies,
- bereft life,
- bereft of life,
- de parted,
- de-parted,
- gone meet maker,
- gone reward,
- gone to meet maker,
- gone to reward,
- in animate,
- in-animate,
- more erased,
- more expired,
- more liquidated,
- more mortified,
- more offed,
- more perished,
- more reposing,
- most erased,
- most expired,
- most liquidated,
- most mortified,
- most offed,
- most perished,
- most reposing,
- not existing,
- offed,
- out misery,
- out of misery,
- out of one misery,
- out of one's misery,
- out of ones misery,
- out one misery,
- pushing daisies,
- resting in peace,
- resting peace.
- reduced
-
colorless
- doughy,
- uncolored,
- unmemorable,
- doughier,
- Unpassioned,
- doughiest,
- more achromic,
- more bleached,
- more characterless,
- more uncolored,
- more unmemorable,
- more unpassioned,
- most achromic,
- most bleached,
- most uncolored,
- most unmemorable,
- most unpassioned,
- run of the mill,
- un colored,
- un memorable,
- un-memorable,
- washed out.
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passive
- non-resistant,
- nonresistant,
- unassertive,
- unresisting,
- going through motions,
- hands off,
- long suffering,
- longsuffering,
- more bearing,
- more nonresistant,
- more poker-faced,
- more unassertive,
- more unresisting,
- most bearing,
- most nonresistant,
- most unassertive,
- most unresisting,
- non resistant,
- non violent,
- non-violent,
- re signed,
- re-signed,
- sub missive,
- un assertive,
- un flappable,
- un involved,
- un resisting,
- un-assertive,
- un-involved,
- un-resisting,
- walking through it.
- active
- amusing
- slack
- weak
- numb
-
boring
- characterless,
- dragger,
- nowhere,
- unvaried,
- well-worn,
- motheaten,
- bombest,
- draggest,
- in terminable,
- in-terminable,
- inter-minable,
- more drudging,
- more nowhere,
- more well worn,
- more well-worn,
- more wellworn,
- most characterless,
- most drudging,
- most nowhere,
- most unvaried,
- most well worn,
- most well-worn,
- most wellworn,
- stereo typed,
- un varied,
- un-varied,
- well worn,
- wellworn.
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dull
- dun,
- earthbound,
- edentulate,
- edgeless,
- matte,
- out-of-date,
- prosy,
- repetitious,
- stocker,
- subfusc,
- toothless,
- unexciting,
- unlit,
- unpointed,
- unsharpened,
- yawner,
- Numskulled,
- unintellectual,
- prosier,
- prosiest,
- longwinded,
- oft-repeated,
- not bright,
- be sotted,
- be-sotted,
- big yawn,
- de pressed,
- de-pressed,
- dim witted,
- duner,
- dunest,
- feeble minded,
- in active,
- in different,
- in sensate,
- in sensible,
- in-different,
- in-sensate,
- in-sensible,
- mattest,
- more abused,
- more blunted,
- more driveling,
- more edentate,
- more edentulate,
- more edgeless,
- more numskulled,
- more oft repeated,
- more oft-repeated,
- more oftrepeated,
- more out of date,
- more subfusc,
- more toned down,
- more toned-down,
- more toneddown,
- more turned,
- more unintellectual,
- more unlit,
- more unpointed,
- more unsharpened,
- most abused,
- most blunted,
- most driveling,
- most edentate,
- most edgeless,
- most numskulled,
- most oft repeated,
- most oft-repeated,
- most oftrepeated,
- most softened,
- most subfusc,
- most toned down,
- most toned-down,
- most toneddown,
- most toothless,
- most turned,
- most unintellectual,
- most unlit,
- most unpointed,
- most unsharpened,
- not keen,
- oft repeated,
- oftrepeated,
- out of date,
- re gular,
- re-gular,
- simple minded,
- toned-down,
- toneddown,
- un imaginative,
- un inspiring,
- un intellectual,
- un pointed,
- un responsive,
- un sharpened,
- un sympathetic,
- un-imaginative,
- un-intellectual,
- un-pointed,
- un-responsive,
- un-sharpened,
- un-sympathetic,
- usual thing,
- without incident,
- yawnest.
- inert
- lethargic
- weary
-
dry
- desiccant,
- dried-up,
- impassive,
- inelaborate,
- juiceless,
- Droughty,
- Unmoistened,
- de hydrated,
- de-hydrated,
- draggier,
- draggiest,
- draggy,
- dried up,
- driedup,
- droughtier,
- droughtiest,
- in elaborate,
- in-elaborate,
- low key,
- lowkey,
- more dehydrated,
- more desiccant,
- more desiccated,
- more dried up,
- more dried-up,
- more driedup,
- more evaporated,
- more inelaborate,
- more juiceless,
- more sapped,
- more shriveled,
- more unmoistened,
- most dehydrated,
- most desiccant,
- most desiccated,
- most dried up,
- most dried-up,
- most driedup,
- most evaporated,
- most inelaborate,
- most juiceless,
- most sapped,
- not irrigated,
- re strained,
- re-strained,
- searer,
- searest,
- un moistened,
- un-moistened.
- cadaverous
- leisurely
- depressed
- bright
-
motionless
- apoplectic,
- at rest,
- deadlocked,
- immotile,
- stockstill,
- at a standstill,
- at standstill,
- be calmed,
- be-calmed,
- more apoplectic,
- more becalmed,
- more deadlocked,
- more halted,
- more immotile,
- more stalled,
- more transfixed,
- most apoplectic,
- most becalmed,
- most deadlocked,
- most halted,
- most immotile,
- most stalled,
- most transfixed,
- stock still,
- trans fixed,
- trans-fixed,
- un movable,
- un-movable,
- un-moved.
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dim
- lightless,
- mater,
- unilluminated,
- dusker,
- duskest,
- ill defined,
- illdefined,
- in distinct,
- in-distinct,
- matest,
- mono-tone,
- more blurred,
- more lightless,
- more monotone,
- more muted,
- more sullied,
- more tarnished,
- more unilluminated,
- most lightless,
- most monotone,
- most muted,
- most sullied,
- most tarnished,
- most unilluminated,
- over cast,
- over-cast,
- poorly lit,
- un clear,
- un clearest,
- un illuminated,
- un-clear,
- un-clearest,
- un-illuminated.
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slow
- unpunctual,
- time-consuming,
- snaillike,
- be lated,
- be-lated,
- de laying,
- de-laying,
- dis inclined,
- dis-inclined,
- long delayed,
- long drawn out,
- long-delayed,
- longdelayed,
- more dawdling,
- more detained,
- more hindered,
- more impeded,
- more loitering,
- more long delayed,
- more long-delayed,
- more longdelayed,
- more postponing,
- more snaillike,
- more time-consuming,
- more tortoiselike,
- most dawdling,
- most detained,
- most hindered,
- most impeded,
- most long delayed,
- most long-delayed,
- most longdelayed,
- most snaillike,
- most time consuming,
- most tortoiselike,
- most unpunctual,
- over due,
- over-due,
- time consuming,
- timeconsuming,
- tortoiselike,
- un productive,
- un progressive,
- un-productive,
- un-progressive.
-
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 undermined,
- more unnerved,
- more vitiated,
- most devitalized,
- most enfeebled,
- most prostrated,
- 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.
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inactive
- out of service,
- mothballed,
- on hold,
- dis engaged,
- dis-engaged,
- do nothing,
- donothing,
- in holding pattern,
- in-active,
- more do-nothing,
- more donothing,
- more mothballed,
- most do nothing,
- most do-nothing,
- most donothing,
- out commission,
- out service,
- out work,
- un employed,
- un occupied,
- un-occupied,
- un-used.
-
fatigued
- played out,
- Dead beat,
- Dog-weary,
- overtired,
- be draggled,
- be-draggled,
- dead-beat,
- dead-tired,
- deadtired,
- dog weary,
- dogweary,
- fagged out,
- lassitudinous,
- more dead beat,
- more dead tired,
- more dead-beat,
- more dead-tired,
- more deadbeat,
- more deadtired,
- more dog weary,
- more dog-weary,
- more dogweary,
- more dropping,
- more lassitudinous,
- more overtired,
- most dead beat,
- most dead tired,
- most dead-beat,
- most dead-tired,
- most deadbeat,
- most deadtired,
- most dog weary,
- most dog-weary,
- most dogweary,
- most dropping,
- most lassitudinous,
- most overtired,
- over tired,
- over-tired.
- alive
- blank
- bold
-
darkish
- dim.
- deathly
- deflated
- done
-
dormant
- out of action,
- slumbering,
- sidelined,
- on the shelf,
- closed down,
- in operative,
- in-operative,
- more hibernating,
- more prepatent,
- more sidelined,
- more slumbering,
- more smoldering,
- most hibernating,
- most prepatent,
- most sidelined,
- most slumbering,
- most smoldering,
- on shelf,
- out action,
- pre patent,
- pre-patent,
- prepatent.
- dragging
-
drained
- Hacked,
- wornout,
- dead tired,
- far-gone,
- fargone,
- more far gone,
- more far-gone,
- more fargone,
- more hacked,
- more wiped out,
- more wiped-out,
- more wipedout,
- most far gone,
- most far-gone,
- most fargone,
- most hacked,
- most wiped out,
- most wiped-out,
- most wipedout,
- most worn out,
- washedout,
- wiped-out,
- wipedout.
- dreary
- drowsy
-
exhausted
- dog-tired,
- tuckered,
- had it,
- ready to drop,
- at an end,
- all gone,
- at end,
- bone weary,
- bone-weary,
- boneweary,
- dogtired,
- ex pended,
- ex-pended,
- more bone weary,
- more bone-weary,
- more boneweary,
- more dog tired,
- more dog-tired,
- more dogtired,
- more expended,
- more frazzled,
- more shot,
- more squandered,
- most bone weary,
- most bone-weary,
- most boneweary,
- most consumed,
- most dog tired,
- most dog-tired,
- most dogtired,
- most expended,
- most frazzled,
- most shot,
- most squandered,
- out feet,
- out on feet,
- out on one feet,
- out on one's feet,
- out on ones feet,
- out one feet,
- out one's feet,
- out ones feet,
- outta gas,
- ready drop.
- expressionless
- faint
- finished
- funereal
- gloomy
- listless
-
matter-of-fact
- unimpassioned,
- unsentimental,
- matter of fact,
- hardboiled,
- coldblooded,
- unidealistic,
- matter-of-fact,
- cold blooded,
- hard boiled,
- more unidealistic,
- more unimpassioned,
- more unsentimental,
- most unidealistic,
- most unimpassioned,
- most unsentimental,
- un affected,
- un idealistic,
- un impassioned,
- un sentimental,
- un varnished,
- un-idealistic,
- un-impassioned,
- un-sentimental,
- un-varnished.
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monotonous
- singsong,
- uninflected,
- puts to sleep,
- sing song,
- flat as pancake,
- more droning,
- more reiterated,
- more samely,
- more sing song,
- more sing-song,
- more singsong,
- more uninflected,
- most droning,
- most reiterated,
- most samely,
- most sing song,
- most sing-song,
- most singsong,
- most uninflected,
- puts one sleep,
- puts one to sleep,
- puts sleep,
- re current,
- re iterated,
- re-current,
- re-iterated,
- samely,
- sing-song,
- un changed,
- un changing,
- un inflected,
- un relieved,
- un varying,
- un-changed,
- un-changing,
- un-inflected,
- un-relieved,
- un-varying,
- uni form,
- uni-form.
- powerless
- sleepy
- solemn
-
uncomfortable
- anguished,
- in pain,
- dis composed,
- dis quieted,
- dis-composed,
- dis-quieted,
- more anguished,
- more discomfited,
- more discomposed,
- more disquieted,
- more galled,
- more suffering,
- more vexed,
- more wracked,
- most anguished,
- most chafed,
- most discomfited,
- most disquieted,
- most galled,
- most vexed,
- most wracked,
- self conscious,
- selfconscious,
- un comfortable,
- un easier,
- un easiest,
- un easy,
- un-comfortable,
- un-easier,
- un-easiest.
- unexciting
- uninterested
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wishy-washy
- wishy-washy,
- in decisive,
- in-decisive,
- more namby pamby,
- more namby-pamby,
- more nambypamby,
- more sapless,
- more weak kneed,
- more weak-kneed,
- more weakkneed,
- most namby pamby,
- most namby-pamby,
- most nambypamby,
- most weak-kneed,
- most weakkneed,
- namby pamby,
- nambypamby,
- watereddown,
- weak kneed,
- weakkneed,
- wishy washy,
- wishywashy.
-
worn
- cliched,
- wrung out,
- worn down,
- de stroyed,
- de-stroyed,
- more busted,
- more dinged,
- more pinched,
- more totaled,
- more worn down,
- more worn-down,
- more worndown,
- most busted,
- most dinged,
- most frayed,
- most pinched,
- most totaled,
- most worn down,
- most worn-down,
- most worndown,
- pegged out,
- worn-down,
- worndown.
- worn out
- agile
- arid
-
bland
- sapless,
- uninspiring,
- unstimulating,
- wimpy,
- nerdy,
- milk-and-water,
- dull as dishwater,
- ho hum,
- more milk and water,
- more nothing,
- more pabulum,
- more uninspiring,
- more unstimulating,
- more zero,
- most milk and water,
- most nothing,
- most pabulum,
- most sapless,
- most uninspiring,
- most unstimulating,
- most zero,
- nerdier,
- nerdiest,
- un interesting,
- un stimulating,
- un-inspiring,
- wimpiest.
- blurry
- bracing
- breezy
- brisk
- burdened
-
deadly
- carcinogenic,
- Deathful,
- Mortiferous,
- corpselike,
- de stroying,
- de-stroying,
- death dealing,
- death-dealing,
- deathdealing,
- more corpselike,
- more deadened,
- more death dealing,
- more death-dealing,
- more deathdealing,
- more deathful,
- more destroying,
- more mortiferous,
- more slaying,
- most carcinogenic,
- most corpselike,
- most deadened,
- most death dealing,
- most deathdealing,
- most deathful,
- most destroying,
- most killing,
- most mortiferous,
- most slaying,
- un relenting.
- deceased
-
grave
- cold sober,
- long-faced,
- grim-faced,
- grimfaced,
- long faced,
- longfaced,
- more grim faced,
- more grim-faced,
- more grimfaced,
- more long faced,
- more long-faced,
- more longfaced,
- more unsmiling,
- most grim-faced,
- most long-faced,
- most longfaced,
- most unsmiling,
- no nonsense,
- nononsense,
- strictly business,
- un smiling,
- un-smiling.
- halfhearted
-
humdrum
- banausic,
- toneless,
- white-bread,
- dime dozen,
- garden variety,
- gardenvariety,
- more banausic,
- more plodding,
- more toneless,
- more treadmill,
- more unvaried,
- more white bread,
- more white-bread,
- more whitebread,
- most banausic,
- most plodding,
- most toneless,
- most treadmill,
- most white bread,
- most white-bread,
- most whitebread,
- un-interesting,
- white bread,
- whitebread.
- lackadaisical
- lackluster
- languid
-
lazy
- neglectful,
- slow-moving,
- unenergetic,
- unready,
- asleep job,
- asleep on job,
- asleep on the job,
- asleep the job,
- unpersevering,
- in attentive,
- more dallying,
- more laggard,
- more procrastinating,
- more slow moving,
- more slow-moving,
- more slowmoving,
- more unenergetic,
- more unindustrious,
- more unpersevering,
- most dallying,
- most laggard,
- most procrastinating,
- most slow moving,
- most slow-moving,
- most slowmoving,
- most unenergetic,
- most unindustrious,
- most unpersevering,
- most unready,
- slow moving,
- slowmoving,
- un energetic,
- un industrious,
- un persevering,
- un ready,
- un-energetic,
- un-industrious,
- un-persevering,
- un-ready,
- unindustrious.
- lifeless
- limp
- prostrate
- sedate
- somber
-
spent
- burnt-out,
- burntout,
- done-in,
- donein,
- down drain,
- more burnt out,
- more burnt-out,
- more burntout,
- more donein,
- more played out,
- more played-out,
- more playedout,
- more shattered,
- most burnt out,
- most burnt-out,
- most burntout,
- most done in,
- most done-in,
- most donein,
- most played out,
- most played-out,
- most playedout,
- played-out,
- thrown away,
- washedup.
- spiritless
-
tired
- fatigued,
- narcoleptic,
- sick of,
- weakened,
- weary,
- broken down,
- brokendown,
- dead feet,
- dead on feet,
- dead on one feet,
- dead on one's feet,
- dead on ones feet,
- dead one feet,
- dead one's feet,
- dead ones feet,
- dis tressed,
- dis-tressed,
- ex-asperated,
- more collapsing,
- more narcoleptic,
- most collapsing,
- most exasperated,
- most irked,
- most narcoleptic,
- petered out.
- tiresome
- trite
-
unintelligent
- dull.
- uninteresting
-
used
- worn.
- vapid
-
all
- dull.
- beat
-
very tired
- beat.
- dull, lifeless
- tasteless; undistinctive
- pale, corpselike
-
overused
- used-up,
- Mildewed,
- cornball,
- readymade,
- chainer,
- chainest,
- familiar tune,
- more cliche,
- more cornball,
- more used up,
- more used-up,
- more usedup,
- most cliche,
- most cornball,
- most used up,
- most usedup,
- over used,
- over-used,
- stereo typical,
- stereo-typic,
- stereo-typical,
- un original,
- un-original,
- usedup,
- warmed over,
- warmedover.
- without hue
- calm, collected
-
no longer alive
- dead.
- causing end of life
- suggesting end of life
-
accomplished, finished
- done.
- inactive; sleeping
- tiresome, monotonous
- used up; exhausted
- gloomy, lifeless
-
moistureless
- dry.
- extremely tired
- consumed, used up
- serious; gloomy
- without enthusiasm
- boring, uneventful
- not engaged in action; inert, lazy
- careless, indifferent
- sluggish
- drooping, dull, listless
-
inactive, sluggish
- lazy.
- casual, unhurried
- lazy, sluggish
- spiritless, without energy
- energetic, active, busy
- all the same, remaining the same
- taxed
- overworked
- calm, not moving
-
deadened, insensitive
- numb.
- lifeless, inactive
- weak; unable
- tired, worn
- loose, baggy; inactive
- tired, dull
-
unhurried, lazy
- slow.
- dull, slow-moving
- quiet, serious
- used up, gone; tired out
- motionless, dirty
- exhausted, weary
- irritating, exasperating
- lazy, slow
- distressed, upset
- flat, dull
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
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- Antonyms:
- far, not close.
