General Mills Inc.âs first-quarter financial performance was about as appealing as a soggy bowl of cereal. The Golden Valley-based company reported results Wednesday that fell well short of Wall Street expectations, amid ongoing weakness in consumer spending. And with much of the packaged food industry floundering, General Mills said it will implement an additional $100 million in unspecified cost reductions.
Learner's definition of LETHARGY. [noncount]. : a lack of energy or a lack of interest in doing things: a lethargic feeling or state. â sometimes used figuratively. Symptoms of the disease include loss of appetite and lethargy. I snapped out of my lethargy and began cleaning the house.
lethargy lassitude torpor torpidity stupor languor. These nouns refer to a deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity. Lethargy is a state of sluggishness, drowsy dullness or apathy: The war roused the nation from its lethargy.Lassitude implies weariness or diminished energy such as might result from physical or mental strain: âHis anger had evaporated; he felt nothing but utter lassitudeâ (John Galsworthy). The time of lethargy at Elba seems to have been more unfavourable to his powers than the cold of Russia. 2  Simultaneously with this work in the north, Tunstall circuit, having thrown off its lethargy at the Wrine Hill camp-meeting on the 23rd of May 1819, was carrying on an aggressive evangelism.