'Sluggishly' definitions:
Definition of 'sluggishly'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a sluggish manner; "the smoke rose sluggishly"
Definition of 'Sluggishly'
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]