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Sluggish
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Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow.
4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." Milton.
Synonyms: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. Slug"gish*ly, adv. Slug"gish*ness, n.