sluggish

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[edit] English

[edit] Adjective

sluggish (comparative sluggisher or more sluggish, superlative sluggishest or most sluggish)

Positive
sluggish

Comparative
sluggisher or more sluggish

Superlative
sluggishest or most sluggish
  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.
  4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

[edit] Quotations

  • Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. -- Woodward
  • And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • So sluggish a conceit. -- John Milton

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[edit] Translations

habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man
slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream
having no power to move one's self or itself; inert
characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple
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