'Sluggish' definitions:
Definition of 'sluggish'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Sluggish'
From: GCIDE
- Sluggish \Slug"gish\, a.
- 1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. [1913 Webster]
- Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. [1913 Webster] -- {Slug"gish*ly}, adv. -- {Slug"gish*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sluggish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abeyant,
- affluent,
- aloof,
- ambling,
- apathetic,
- backward,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- blunt,
- blunt-witted,
- bored,
- cataleptic,
- catatonic,
- cautious,
- circumspect,
- claudicant,
- comatose,
- confluent,
- costive,
- coursing,
- crawling,
- creeping,
- creeping like snail,
- dallying,
- dead,
- debilitated,
- decurrent,
- defluent,
- delaying,
- deliberate,
- desensitized,
- detached,
- diffluent,
- dilatory,
- dillydallying,
- dim,
- dim-witted,
- disinterested,
- dopey,
- dormant,
- down,
- dragging,
- draggy,
- droopy,
- drugged,
- dull,
- dull of mind,
- dull-headed,
- dull-pated,
- dull-witted,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- enervated,
- exanimate,
- faltering,
- fat-witted,
- flagging,
- flat,
- flowing,
- fluent,
- fluxional,
- fluxive,
- foot-dragging,
- foul,
- gentle,
- gradual,
- groggy,
- gross-headed,
- gulfy,
- gushing,
- halting,
- heartless,
- heavy,
- hebetudinous,
- hobbled,
- hobbling,
- hopeless,
- idle,
- in a stupor,
- in abeyance,
- in suspense,
- inactive,
- inanimate,
- indifferent,
- indolent,
- inert,
- insouciant,
- jaded,
- lackadaisical,
- laggard,
- lagging,
- languid,
- languorous,
- Laodicean,
- latent,
- lax,
- lazy,
- leaden,
- leisurely,
- lethargic,
- lifeless,
- limping,
- lingering,
- listless,
- logy,
- loitering,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- Micawberish,
- moderate,
- moribund,
- nonchalant,
- numb,
- numbed,
- obtuse,
- off,
- Olympian,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- poking,
- poky,
- pooped,
- pouring,
- procrastinating,
- procrastinative,
- procrastinatory,
- profluent,
- racing,
- relaxed,
- reluctant,
- remiss,
- resigned,
- running,
- rushing,
- sated,
- sauntering,
- sedentary,
- serpentine,
- shuffling,
- slack,
- sleeping,
- sleepy,
- slothful,
- slow,
- slow as death,
- slow as molasses,
- slow as slow,
- slow-crawling,
- slow-foot,
- slow-going,
- slow-legged,
- slow-moving,
- slow-paced,
- slow-poky,
- slow-running,
- slow-sailing,
- slow-stepped,
- slow-witted,
- slumbering,
- slumberous,
- smoldering,
- snail-paced,
- snaillike,
- somnolent,
- soporific,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- staggering,
- stagnant,
- stagnating,
- standing,
- static,
- stiff,
- stoic,
- streaming,
- strolling,
- stultified,
- stupefied,
- stupid,
- supine,
- surging,
- surgy,
- suspended,
- tame,
- tentative,
- thick-brained,
- thick-headed,
- thick-pated,
- thick-witted,
- thickskulled,
- tidal,
- toddling,
- torpid,
- tortoiselike,
- tottering,
- trudging,
- turtlelike,
- unaroused,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- unhurried,
- uninterested,
- vegetable,
- vegetative,
- vortical,
- waddling,
- wan,
- weary,
- withdrawn,
- wooden,
- world-weary