'Sluggish' definitions:

Definition of 'sluggish'

From: WordNet
adjective
Moving slowly; "a sluggish stream" [syn: sluggish, sulky]
adjective
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish]
adjective
Slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert, sluggish, soggy, torpid]

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

Words containing 'Sluggish'