lackadaisical
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What is the definition and pronunciation of “lackadaisical”?
It's the word of the day for August seventeenth. Today's word is lackadaisical. Spelled L A C K A D A I S I C A L. Lacadaisical is an adjective.
How is “lackadaisical” used in a real‑world example from the Daily Gazette?
Someone or something described as lackadaisical is lacking in interest, enthusiasm, or zest. Here's the word used in a sentence from the Daily Gazette of Schenectady. The defense was lackadaisical at best, while the offense wasn't much better. We're too enthusiastic about the lexicon to be lackadaisical about words, but the word lackadaisical itself is rooted in the sort of sorrow that can put a damper on one's passion for vocabulary expansion.
What historical origins and older expressions led to the word “lackadaisical”?
when folks living from the late seventeenth to the late nineteenth century had one of those days when nothing goes right They would cry Lack a Day to express their sorrow and disappointment as a shortened form of the expression a lack the day. A lack is an interjection
used to express sorrow or regret. By the mid seventeen hundreds, the adjective lackadaisical had been formed to describe such weary and exasperated folks, as well as their half hearted doings and
sayings.
How has the meaning of “lackadaisical” evolved to describe laziness today?
Today the word has lost some of its dreariness and most often describes the languid and the lazy. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the definition and pronunciation of “lackadaisical”?
0:06–0:22
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How is “lackadaisical” used in a real‑world example from the Daily Gazette?
0:22–0:52
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What historical origins and older expressions led to the word “lackadaisical”?
0:52–1:25
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How has the meaning of “lackadaisical” evolved to describe laziness today?
1:25–1:44