Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈslʌɡɪʃ/
sluggish (comparative sluggisher, superlative sluggishest)
- Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
- a sluggish man
- And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.
- 1911: Ameen Rihani, The Book of Khalid, p.37
- He helps us to understand the insignificant points which mark the rapid undercurrents of the seemingly sluggish soul of Khalid.
- Slow; having little motion
- 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, At Sunset Time
- We float upon a sluggish stream,
- We ride no rapids mad,
- While life is all a tempered dream
- And every joy half sad.
- 1913, Paul Laurence Dunbar, At Sunset Time
- Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
- Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.
- Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
- Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
- Inflation has been rising despite sluggish economy.
- See also Thesaurus:lazy
- See also Thesaurus:slow
- (slow, having little motion) nimble
- Portuguese: vadio, vagabundo
- Russian: лени́вый
- Spanish: perezoso, haragán, huevón, desganado, aburrido, inútil
- French: poussif, faiblard (familiar)
- Portuguese: lento, moroso
- Russian: ме́дленный
- Spanish: lento, calmado, calmo
- French: rétamé (slang), naze (slang)
- Portuguese: inerte
- Russian: неповоротливый
- Spanish: desganado (persons), apagado (persons, things), inerte
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