About The Word Sluggish
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Sluggish
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What's The Definition Of Sluggish?
[adj] slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age"
[adj] (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [adj] with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish stream" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sluggish: dull | inactive | inert | slow | torpid Related Terms | Find terms related to Sluggish: See Also | Sluggish In Webster's Dictionary \Slug"gish\, a.
1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a
sluggish man.
2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath
no power to stir or move itself. --Woodward.
And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.
--Longfellow.
4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
[R.] ``So sluggish a conceit.'' --Milton.
Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow;
dull; drowsy; inactive. See {Inert}. -- {Slug"gish*ly},
adv. -- {Slug"gish*ness}, n.
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