a. 1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. [ 1913 Webster ]
A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. “The spiritless body.” Greenhill. [ 1913 Webster ]
-- Spir"it*less*ly, adv. -- Spir"it*less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]