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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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.

Matter, being impotent,

sluggish

, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.

Woodward.

And the

sluggish

land slumbers in utter neglect.

Longfellow.

Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

[R.]

“So sluggish a conceit.”

Milton.

Syn. – Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See

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Slug′gish-ly

adv.

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Slug′gish-ness

Noun.

Adj.

Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as a sluggish man.

2.Slow; having little motion; as a sluggish river or stream.

Inert; inactive; having no power to move itself. Matter is sluggish and inactive.