无精打采

wú jīng dǎ cǎi

listless

Character by character

无wú
no

精jīng
vigour

打dǎ
rouse

采cǎi
spirit

他昨晚没睡好，今天无精打采的。

He didn't sleep well last night and is dragging today.

Tone: negative (criticism).

In speech it often ends in 的; also written 没精打采.

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