2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sluggish \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sluggish
adj 1: with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish stream"
2: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: {dull}, {slow}]
3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: {inert}, {torpid}]
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