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listý v. 1 lean (over), tilt, slant, heel (over), tip, careen, cant,
incline: The ship suddenly listed to starboard and I was thrown
onto the deck.
--n. 2 lean, tilt, slant, heel, tip, cant, slope, inclination:
The leak caused a severe list to port.
listen v. 1 hear, pay attention (to), attend, lend an ear (to), prick
up one's ears, keep one's ears open, Archaic hark (to), hearken
or US also harken (to): I was listening to the radio when you
phoned. 2 obey, heed, mind, pay attention (to), do as one is
told: You wouldn't be in this trouble if you'd listened to me.
listless adj. sluggish, lethargic, weary, weak, enervated, spent,
languid, lifeless, heavy, phlegmatic, unemotional, impassive;
unenthusiastic, indifferent, apathetic, unconcerned, lukewarm,
tepid, cool, uncaring, insouciant; pococurante, Laodicean: She
was just over an illness and feeling quite listless.
litany n. 1 prayer, invocation, supplication, petition: The monks
trudged through the streets, chanting their litany. 2
recitation, recital, enumeration, listing, list, cataloguing,
catalogue, inventorying, inventory: We had to sit through an
interminable litany of the names of contributors to the fund.
literal adj. 1 word-for-word, verbatim, line-for-line,
letter-for-letter, literatim, exact, precise, faithful, strict:
In a literal translation the spirit of the original is often
lost. 2 denotative, etymological, semantic, dictionary,
lexical, basic, essential, pure, simple, simplistic, real,
objective, true, genuine, bona fide, unvarnished, unadulterated,
unembellished, simple-minded, uncomplicated, unbiased,
unprejudiced, Colloq honest-to-goodness, honest-to-God: 'Female
parent' may be the literal definition of mother, but it doesn't
convey the emotional and connotative senses of the word. 3
prosaic, matter-of-fact, colourless, dull, down-to-earth,
literal-minded, unimaginative, humdrum, boring, tedious: His
literal approach to everything spoils the conversation for those
who have any spirit.
literally adv. 1 word for word, verbatim, line for line, letter for
letter, literatim, faithfully, strictly, exactly, precisely,