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L / M-1 — Lackadaisical to Meagre (50 words)

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Letter L and the start of M: 50 words, from Lackadaisical to Meagre.

1. LACKADAISICAL (adj.)

  • Urdu: بے دل، سست، لاپروا
  • Meaning: lacking enthusiasm and determination
  • Synonyms: lazy, careless, apathetic, half-hearted, lethargic
  • Antonyms: enthusiastic, diligent, energetic, keen
  • Use: His lackadaisical attitude cost him the job.

2. LACKLUSTRE (adj.)

  • Urdu: بے رونق، پھیکا
  • Meaning: lacking energy or brilliance
  • Synonyms: dull, uninspired, flat, mediocre, drab
  • Antonyms: brilliant, dazzling, exciting, vibrant
  • Use: The team gave a lacklustre performance.

3. LAMBASTE (v.)

  • Urdu: سخت تنقید کرنا، لتاڑنا
  • Meaning: to criticise harshly
  • Synonyms: criticise, berate, castigate, censure, slam
  • Antonyms: praise, commend, applaud
  • Use: The media lambasted the police's slow response.

4. LAMENT (v./n.)

  • Urdu: ماتم کرنا، افسوس کرنا؛ نوحہ
  • Meaning: to mourn or express regret; a mournful poem
  • Synonyms: mourn, grieve, bemoan, deplore, elegy
  • Antonyms: celebrate, rejoice, cheer
  • Use: Poets lament the decline of Urdu reading.

5. LANGUID (adj.)

  • Urdu: سست، نڈھال
  • Meaning: lacking energy; slow and relaxed
  • Synonyms: listless, lethargic, sluggish, feeble, languorous
  • Antonyms: vigorous, energetic, lively
  • Use: The summer heat made everyone languid.
  • 🔁 CSS 2013

6. LARCENY (n.)

  • Urdu: چوری
  • Meaning: theft of personal property
  • Synonyms: theft, stealing, robbery, pilfering
  • Antonyms: restitution, honesty
  • Use: He was jailed for grand larceny.
  • 🔁 CSS 2006

7. LARGESSE (n.)

  • Urdu: فیاضی، بخشش
  • Meaning: generosity in giving money or gifts
  • Synonyms: generosity, munificence, bounty, liberality, charity
  • Antonyms: meanness, stinginess, parsimony
  • Use: Politicians distribute largesse before elections.

8. LATENT (adj.)

  • Urdu: پوشیدہ، مخفی (صلاحیت)
  • Meaning: existing but not yet developed or visible
  • Synonyms: dormant, hidden, potential, undeveloped, concealed
  • Antonyms: manifest, active, obvious, developed
  • Use: Education unlocks latent talent.

9. LAUDABLE (adj.)

  • Urdu: قابلِ تعریف
  • Meaning: deserving praise
  • Synonyms: praiseworthy, commendable, admirable, creditable
  • Antonyms: blameworthy, shameful, reprehensible
  • Use: The flood relief effort was laudable.
  • 🔁 CSS 2020

10. LAVISH (adj./v.)

  • Urdu: فضول خرچ، شاہانہ؛ نچھاور کرنا
  • Meaning: sumptuously rich; to give generously
  • Synonyms: luxurious, opulent, extravagant, sumptuous, generous
  • Antonyms: frugal, meagre, plain, stingy
  • Use: Lavish weddings are banned after 10 pm in Punjab.

11. LAX (adj.)

  • Urdu: ڈھیلا، لاپروا
  • Meaning: not strict or careful enough
  • Synonyms: slack, careless, lenient, negligent
  • Antonyms: strict, rigorous, careful
  • Use: Lax enforcement encourages violations.
  • 🔁 CSS 2018

12. LENIENT (adj.)

  • Urdu: نرم، رحم دل
  • Meaning: more merciful or tolerant than expected
  • Synonyms: merciful, tolerant, forgiving, indulgent, easy-going
  • Antonyms: strict, harsh, severe, stern
  • Use: The judge gave a lenient sentence to the first offender.

13. LETHARGIC (adj.)

  • Urdu: سست، کاہل، بے جان
  • Meaning: sluggish and apathetic
  • Synonyms: sluggish, sleepy, listless, inactive, torpid
  • Antonyms: energetic, lively, active, vigorous
  • Use: Fasting in summer makes many people lethargic.

14. LEVITY (n.)

  • Urdu: غیر سنجیدگی، مذاق
  • Meaning: treating serious matters with humour or lack of respect
  • Synonyms: frivolity, humour, flippancy, light-heartedness
  • Antonyms: seriousness, gravity, solemnity
  • Use: His jokes brought levity to the tense meeting.
  • 🔁 CSS 2022 (option)

15. LIAISON (n.)

  • Urdu: رابطہ، تعاون
  • Meaning: communication or cooperation between groups
  • Synonyms: contact, communication, link, cooperation, connection
  • Antonyms: separation, disconnection
  • Use: He works as the ministry's liaison officer.

16. LIBEL (n./v.)

  • Urdu: تحریری ہتکِ عزت، بہتان
  • Meaning: a published false statement damaging reputation
  • Synonyms: defamation, slander, calumny, smear, vilification
  • Antonyms: praise, compliment, vindication
  • Use: The minister sued the paper for libel.

17. LICENTIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: بدچلن، بے لگام
  • Meaning: disregarding accepted rules, especially sexual ones
  • Synonyms: debauched, immoral, dissolute, wanton, lewd
  • Antonyms: moral, chaste, virtuous, restrained
  • Use: The court's licentious lifestyle angered the public.

18. LIMPID (adj.)

  • Urdu: شفاف، صاف
  • Meaning: clear and transparent (of water or style)
  • Synonyms: clear, transparent, lucid, crystal, pellucid
  • Antonyms: murky, turbid, cloudy, muddy
  • Use: The limpid waters of Attabad Lake amaze tourists.

19. LINGER (v.)

  • Urdu: ٹھہرنا، دیر تک رہنا
  • Meaning: to stay longer than necessary; to persist
  • Synonyms: remain, stay, persist, loiter, dawdle
  • Antonyms: leave, depart, vanish, hurry
  • Use: The smell of smoke lingered for days.

20. LIONIZE (v.)

  • Urdu: ہیرو بنانا، بہت اہمیت دینا
  • Meaning: to treat as a celebrity
  • Synonyms: celebrate, glorify, idolise, acclaim, fete
  • Antonyms: ignore, snub, belittle, vilify
  • Use: The nation lionized the returning champions.

21. LISTLESS (adj.)

  • Urdu: بے دل، سست
  • Meaning: lacking energy or enthusiasm
  • Synonyms: lethargic, languid, apathetic, spiritless, weary
  • Antonyms: energetic, lively, enthusiastic
  • Use: The patient felt listless after the fever.

22. LITIGIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: مقدمہ باز
  • Meaning: too ready to take legal action
  • Synonyms: quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, disputatious
  • Antonyms: peaceable, conciliatory, agreeable
  • Use: Land disputes make rural Punjab litigious.

23. LIVID (adj.)

  • Urdu: غصے سے آگ بگولا؛ نیلا
  • Meaning: furiously angry; bluish in colour
  • Synonyms: furious, enraged, irate, incensed, fuming
  • Antonyms: calm, pleased, happy, composed
  • Use: Farmers were livid at the water shortage.

24. LOATHE (v.)

  • Urdu: شدید نفرت کرنا
  • Meaning: to feel intense dislike for
  • Synonyms: hate, detest, abhor, despise, abominate
  • Antonyms: love, adore, like, cherish
  • Use: He loathes dishonesty.

25. LOFTY (adj.)

  • Urdu: بلند، اعلیٰ؛ مغرور
  • Meaning: of imposing height; noble; haughty
  • Synonyms: high, towering, noble, exalted, arrogant
  • Antonyms: low, humble, base, modest
  • Use: The party has lofty ideals but little action.

26. LOQUACIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: باتونی
  • Meaning: talkative
  • Synonyms: talkative, garrulous, voluble, verbose
  • Antonyms: taciturn, reticent, silent
  • Use: The loquacious guide never stopped talking.
  • 🔁 CSS 2014, 2016, 2024

27. LUCID (adj.)

  • Urdu: واضح، صاف؛ ہوش مند
  • Meaning: expressed clearly; able to think clearly
  • Synonyms: clear, intelligible, comprehensible, coherent, rational
  • Antonyms: confused, obscure, unclear, muddled
  • Use: He writes in a lucid style.
  • 🔁 CSS 2015

28. LUCRATIVE (adj.)

  • Urdu: منافع بخش
  • Meaning: producing a lot of profit
  • Synonyms: profitable, gainful, remunerative, rewarding
  • Antonyms: unprofitable, loss-making
  • Use: Freelancing has become lucrative for Pakistani youth.
  • 🔁 CSS 2023

29. LUDICROUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: مضحکہ خیز
  • Meaning: so foolish as to be amusing
  • Synonyms: absurd, ridiculous, laughable, preposterous
  • Antonyms: sensible, reasonable, logical
  • Use: The idea of a hundred-storey building in the village is ludicrous.
  • 🔁 CSS 2013

30. LUGUBRIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: غمگین، ماتمی
  • Meaning: looking or sounding sad and dismal
  • Synonyms: mournful, gloomy, doleful, sombre, melancholy
  • Antonyms: cheerful, happy, jovial, merry
  • Use: He spoke in a lugubrious voice.

31. LULL (n./v.)

  • Urdu: وقفۂ سکون؛ سلانا، پرسکون کرنا
  • Meaning: a temporary calm; to calm or soothe
  • Synonyms: pause, respite, calm, hush; soothe, pacify
  • Antonyms: activity, storm, turmoil; arouse, agitate
  • Use: There was a lull in the fighting during Eid.

32. LURID (adj.)

  • Urdu: سنسنی خیز؛ شوخ رنگ
  • Meaning: very vivid in colour; shocking and sensational
  • Synonyms: sensational, shocking, graphic, garish, vivid
  • Antonyms: mild, dull, restrained, understated
  • Use: Tabloids printed lurid details of the crime.
  • 🔁 CSS 2012 (option)

33. LUMINOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: روشن، چمکدار
  • Meaning: full of or shedding light; bright
  • Synonyms: bright, shining, radiant, glowing, brilliant
  • Antonyms: dark, dim, dull, gloomy
  • Use: The luminous full moon lit the desert.

34. MAGNANIMOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: عالی ظرف، فراخ دل
  • Meaning: generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival
  • Synonyms: generous, charitable, big-hearted, noble, forgiving
  • Antonyms: petty, mean, vindictive, selfish
  • Use: The Prophet (PBUH) was magnanimous at the conquest of Makkah.

35. MAGNATE (n.)

  • Urdu: سرمایہ دار، بڑا تاجر
  • Meaning: a wealthy and influential businessperson
  • Synonyms: tycoon, mogul, baron, industrialist, plutocrat
  • Antonyms: pauper, nobody, employee
  • Use: A property magnate funded the hospital.
  • 🔁 CSS 2014 (synonym of plutocrat)

36. MALADY (n.)

  • Urdu: بیماری، مرض، برائی
  • Meaning: a disease or ailment; a problem
  • Synonyms: illness, disease, ailment, affliction, disorder
  • Antonyms: health, cure, remedy, wellness
  • Use: Corruption is a social malady.

37. MALEVOLENT (adj.)

  • Urdu: بدخواہ، کینہ پرور
  • Meaning: wishing to do evil to others
  • Synonyms: malicious, spiteful, hostile, wicked, malignant
  • Antonyms: benevolent, kind, friendly, beneficent
  • Use: He gave a malevolent smile.

38. MALFEASANCE (n.)

  • Urdu: سرکاری بدعنوانی، غلط کاری
  • Meaning: wrongdoing, especially by a public official
  • Synonyms: misconduct, wrongdoing, corruption, malpractice, abuse
  • Antonyms: integrity, honesty, lawfulness
  • Use: NAB investigates cases of malfeasance.

39. MALICIOUS (adj.)

  • Urdu: بدنیت، کینہ پرور
  • Meaning: intending to do harm
  • Synonyms: spiteful, malevolent, vindictive, hostile, cruel
  • Antonyms: benign, kind, benevolent
  • Use: Malicious rumours ruined his reputation.
  • 🔁 CSS 2026 (antonym of benign)

40. MALIGN (v./adj.)

  • Urdu: بدنام کرنا؛ مضر
  • Meaning: to speak harmful untruths about; harmful
  • Synonyms: defame, slander, vilify, smear; harmful
  • Antonyms: praise, defend; benign
  • Use: He was maligned by his political rivals.

41. MALIGNANT (adj.)

  • Urdu: مہلک (رسولی)، بدخواہ
  • Meaning: (of a disease) very harmful and spreading; malevolent
  • Synonyms: cancerous, deadly, virulent, malevolent, harmful
  • Antonyms: benign, harmless, kind
  • Use: The tumour was found to be malignant.

42. MALLEABLE (adj.)

  • Urdu: چکنا، جسے شکل دی جا سکے؛ اثر قبول کرنے والا
  • Meaning: able to be shaped; easily influenced
  • Synonyms: pliable, ductile, flexible, pliant, impressionable
  • Antonyms: rigid, brittle, inflexible, stubborn
  • Use: Gold is the most malleable metal.

43. MANDATE (n./v.)

  • Urdu: عوامی مینڈیٹ، اختیار؛ حکم دینا
  • Meaning: an official order or authority given by voters
  • Synonyms: authority, authorisation, command, directive, sanction
  • Antonyms: prohibition, ban, veto
  • Use: The party won a clear mandate in the election.

44. MANDATORY (adj.)

  • Urdu: لازمی، ضروری
  • Meaning: required by law or rules
  • Synonyms: compulsory, obligatory, required, binding, essential
  • Antonyms: optional, voluntary, discretionary
  • Use: Part-I MCQs are mandatory in the CSS paper.

45. MANIFEST (adj./v.)

  • Urdu: ظاہر، واضح؛ ظاہر کرنا
  • Meaning: clear and obvious; to show
  • Synonyms: obvious, evident, clear, apparent; display, reveal
  • Antonyms: hidden, obscure, latent, recondite
  • Use: His guilt was manifest.
  • 🔁 CSS 2022 (antonym of recondite)

46. MANIPULATE (v.)

  • Urdu: ہیرا پھیری کرنا، چالاکی سے قابو کرنا
  • Meaning: to control or influence cleverly or unfairly
  • Synonyms: exploit, control, influence, rig, finagle
  • Antonyms: leave alone, be honest
  • Use: Cartels manipulate sugar prices.
  • 🔁 CSS 2025 (synonym of finagle)

47. MARRED (adj./v.)

  • Urdu: بگڑا ہوا، خراب کیا گیا
  • Meaning: spoiled or impaired
  • Synonyms: spoiled, damaged, tarnished, blemished, ruined
  • Antonyms: enhanced, improved, flawless
  • Use: The election was marred by violence.

48. MARTIAL (adj.)

  • Urdu: فوجی، جنگی
  • Meaning: relating to war or the armed forces
  • Synonyms: military, warlike, soldierly, combative
  • Antonyms: civilian, peaceful
  • Use: Pakistan saw martial law four times.

49. MAVERICK (n.)

  • Urdu: آزاد سوچ رکھنے والا، انوکھا
  • Meaning: an independent-minded person
  • Synonyms: nonconformist, individualist, rebel, free spirit
  • Antonyms: conformist, traditionalist, follower
  • Use: He was a maverick in a conservative party.

50. MEAGRE (adj.)

  • Urdu: قلیل، ناکافی
  • Meaning: lacking in quantity or quality
  • Synonyms: scanty, inadequate, paltry, sparse, insufficient
  • Antonyms: abundant, plentiful, ample, generous
  • Use: Many families survive on meagre incomes.