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sluggish |
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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