6 July 2014

lackadaisical

[lak-uh-dey-zi-kuhl]

adjective

1. without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic: a lackadaisical attempt.
2. lazy; indolent: a lackadaisical fellow.

Origin:
1760–70; lackadais(y) (variant of lackaday) + -ical

Related forms
lack·a·dai·si·cal·ly, adverb
lack·a·dai·si·cal·ness, noun

Synonyms
2. slothful, unambitious, idle.

Anagram

Cicadas Alkali
Acacia All Disk
Lack Acid Alias

Today’s aphorism

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

– Doug Larson

On this day

6 July 1925 – birth of Bill Haley, who arguably had the world’s first ever rock’n’roll song, ‘Rock Around the Clock’. Died 9 February 1981.

6 July 1942 – Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the ‘Secret Annexe’ above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

6 July 1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time. Three years later they formed the Beatles.