going through the motions synonyms

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• blah
• callous
• cold
• cool
• could care less
• couldn't care less
• don't give a damn
• draggy
• emotionless
• flat
• impassive
• indifferent
• insensible
• laid-back
• languid
• moony
• passive
• stoic
• stolid
• unconcerned
• unemotional
• unfeeling
• uninterested
• unmoved
• unresponsive
• untouched

• absent-minded
• abstracted
• casual
• cursory
• disregardful
• forgetful
• hasty
• heedless
• improvident
• imprudent
• inaccurate
• inadvertent
• incautious
• inconsiderate
• indifferent
• indiscreet
• indolent
• injudicious
• irresponsible
• lackadaisical
• lax
• loose
• mindless
• napping
• negligent
• nonchalant

• air-conditioned
• algid
• arctic
• biting
• chill
• chilled
• chilling
• chilly
• coldish
• frigid
• frore
• frosty
• gelid
• hawkish
• nipping
• refreshing
• refrigerated
• shivery
• snappy
• wintry

• brief
• careless
• depthless
• desultory
• fast
• half-assed
• half-baked
• haphazard
• hit or miss
• hurried
• offhand
• passing
• perfunctory
• quick
• random
• rapid
• shallow
• short
• sketchy
• slapdash
• slight
• sloppy
• speedy
• summary
• superficial
• swift

• aloof
• candid
• casual
• dispassionate
• equitable
• even-handed
• impartial
• impersonal
• incurious
• indifferent
• just watching the clock
• lackadaisical
• negative
• neutral
• nonpartisan
• not giving a damn
• outside
• perfunctory
• remote
• unbiased
• unconcerned
• uncurious
• unprejudiced
• unselfish
• withdrawn

• asleep at the switch
• daydreaming
• disregardful
• fast and loose
• feckless
• foolhardy
• goofing off
• impetuous
• imprudent
• inadvertent
• inattentive
• incautious
• inconsiderate
• irreflective
• neglectful
• negligent
• oblivious
• out to lunch
• precipitate
• rash
• reckless
• slapdash
• sloppy
• thoughtless
• uncaring
• unmindful

• abstract
• bureaucratic
• businesslike
• candid
• cold turkey
• cold-blooded
• colorless
• cool
• detached
• disinterested
• dispassionate
• emotionless
• equal
• equitable
• fair
• formal
• impartial
• indifferent
• inhuman
• neutral
• nondiscriminatory
• objective
• poker-faced
• remote
• straight
• strictly business

• absent
• absentminded
• apathetic
• blind
• bored
• careless
• distracted
• distrait
• distraught
• diverted
• dreamy
• faraway
• heedless
• inadvertent
• indifferent
• inobservant
• listless
• lost
• musing
• neglectful
• oblivious
• off-guard
• out to lunch
• preoccupied
• rapt
• regardless

• aloof
• apathetic
• blasé
• callous
• cold
• cool
• detached
• diffident
• disinterested
• dispassionate
• distant
• equitable
• haughty
• heartless
• heedless
• highbrow
• impartial
• impervious
• inattentive
• listless
• neutral
• nonchalant
• nonpartisan
• objective
• passionless
• phlegmatic

• automatic
• begrudging
• blind
• compulsory
• conditioned
• forced
• grudging
• habitual
• impulsive
• instinctive
• instinctual
• knee-jerk
• obligatory
• reflex
• reflexive
• reluctant
• spontaneous
• uncalculated
• unconscious
• uncontrolled
• unintended
• unintentional
• unmeditated
• unpremeditated
• unprompted
• unthinking

• abstracted
• apathetic
• daydreaming
• disinterested
• dreamy
• dull
• energyless
• enervated
• faineant
• fainéant
• halfhearted
• idle
• inattentive
• incurious
• indolent
• inert
• laid-back
• languid
• languishing
• languorous
• lazy
• lethargic
• limp
• listless
• moony
• passive

• easygoing
• lax
• low-pressure
• mellow
• undemanding
• unhurried

• automated
• automatic
• cold
• cursory
• emotionless
• fixed
• habitual
• impersonal
• instinctive
• involuntary
• laborsaving
• lifeless
• machine-driven
• matter-of-fact
• monotonous
• perfunctory
• programmed
• routine
• spiritless
• standardized
• stereotyped
• unchanging
• unconscious
• unfeeling
• unthinking
• useful

• asleep at switch
• behindhand
• cursory
• delinquent
• derelict
• discinct
• disregardful
• forgetful
• heedless
• inadvertent
• inattentive
• inconsiderate
• incurious
• lax
• neglectful
• nonchalant
• offhand
• regardless
• remiss
• slack
• slapdash
• slipshod
• sloppy
• slovenly
• thoughtless
• unconcerned

• aloof
• breezy
• brusque
• casual
• cavalier
• cool
• curt
• easygoing
• folksy
• glib
• informal
• laid-back
• mellow
• perfunctory
• unceremonious
• unconcerned
• uninterested

• apathetic
• careless
• cool
• cursory
• disinterested
• going through the motions
• heedless
• impersonal
• inattentive
• indifferent
• involuntary
• lackadaisical
• laid-back
• mechanical
• negligent
• offhand
• routine
• sketchy
• slipshod
• slovenly
• standard
• stereotyped
• stock
• superficial
• unaware
• unconcerned

• accepted
• accustomed
• chronic
• conventional
• customary
• everyday
• familiar
• general
• methodical
• normal
• ordinary
• periodic
• plain
• quotidian
• regular
• seasonal
• standard
• typical
• unremarkable
• usual
• wonted
• workaday

• coarse
• crude
• cursory
• defective
• depthless
• faulty
• imperfect
• inadequate
• insufficient
• introductory
• outline
• perfunctory
• preliminary
• scrappy
• shallow
• skimpy
• slight
• superficial
• uncritical
• unfinished
• vague

• bedraggled
• botched
• disheveled
• faulty
• fly-by-night
• fouled-up
• haphazard
• imperfect
• inaccurate
• inexact
• junky
• loose
• messed-up
• messy
• neglected
• negligent
• raunchy
• screwed-up
• scrubby
• scruffy
• shabby
• shoddy
• slapdash
• sloppy
• slovenly
• tacky

• bedraggled
• botched
• careless
• dingy
• disheveled
• disorderly
• dowdy
• down-at-the-heel
• frowzy
• frumpy
• grody
• grubby
• grungy
• heedless
• icky
• loose
• messed up
• messy
• mussy
• negligent
• pigpen
• raunchy
• seedy
• slack
• slapdash
• sleazy

• accepted
• authoritative
• average
• basic
• boilerplate
• canonical
• classic
• common
• customary
• definitive
• established
• everyday
• garden variety
• general
• normal
• official
• orthodox
• popular
• prevailing
• recognized
• regulation
• run-of-the-mill
• set
• staple
• stock
• typical

• banal
• cliché-ridden
• clichéd
• commonplace
• corny
• dull
• hackneyed
• mass-produced
• ordinary
• overused
• platitudinous
• played out
• stale
• standardized
• stock
• threadbare
• tired
• trite
• unoriginal
• well-worn
• worn thin
• worn-out

• banal
• basic
• common
• conventional
• customary
• dull
• established
• formal
• hackneyed
• normal
• ordinary
• overused
• regular
• routine
• run-of-the-mill
• set
• standard
• staple
• stereotyped
• traditional
• trite
• typical
• usual
• worn-out

• apparent
• casual
• cosmetic
• cursory
• depthless
• desultory
• empty
• evident
• exterior
• external
• flash
• flimsy
• frivolous
• general
• glib
• half-baked
• hasty
• hurried
• ignorant
• inattentive
• lightweight
• nodding
• on the surface
• one-dimensional
• ostensible
• outward

• blind
• careless
• caught napping
• daydreaming
• deaf
• deaf to
• doped
• forgetful
• heedless
• in a daze
• inattentive
• incognizant
• inconversant
• insensible
• mooning
• negligent
• nescient
• not all there
• not cognizant
• oblivious
• out cold
• out of it
• out to lunch
• spacey
• unacquainted
• unconcerned

• aloof
• blind
• blithe
• callous
• careless
• cold
• cool
• deaf
• detached
• dispassionate
• distant
• easy
• feckless
• forgetful
• hard-hearted
• hardened
• heedless
• impassive
• inattentive
• incurious
• indifferent
• insensible
• insensitive
• insouciant
• lackadaisical
• lukewarm

• aloof
• apathetic
• blasé
• bored
• bored stiff
• casual
• could care less
• detached
• disinterested
• distant
• going through motions
• hard-hearted
• impassive
• incurious
• indifferent
• listless
• remote
• thick-skinned
• turned off
• unconcerned
• uncurious
• uninvolved
• unresponsive
• weary
• withdrawn

• accepted
• accustomed
• average
• chronic
• commonplace
• constant
• conventional
• current
• customary
• cut-and-dried
• everyday
• expected
• familiar
• fixed
• frequent
• garden variety
• general
• grind
• habitual
• mainstream
• matter-of-course
• natural
• normal
• ordinary
• plain
• plastic

• acquiescent
• apathetic
• asleep
• bearing
• compliant
• cool
• docile
• enduring
• flat
• forbearing
• going through motions
• hands off
• idle
• indifferent
• inert
• laid-back
• latent
• long-suffering
• moony
• motionless
• nonresistant
• nonviolent
• patient
• phlegmatic
• poker-faced
• quiescent

• board
• clapboard
• frame
• ligneous
• log
• peg
• plant
• slab
• timber
• timbered
• woody

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• going to bed
• going to bed with
• going to bottom