Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SPIR'IT-LESS, a.

1. Destitute of spirits; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage or fire; as, a spiritless slave. A man so faint, so spiritless, / So dull, so dead in look. – Shak.
3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. – Greenhill.