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Meaning of
'sluggish'
(Webster Dictionary)
1 .
Sluggish
[
a.
]
- 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.
Meaning of 'sluggish' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 .
sluggish
[
s
]
Meaning (1):
- slow and apathetic
Example in sentence:
a mind grown torpid in old age;
a sluggish worker;
she was fat and inert
Meaning (2):
- (of business) not active or brisk
Example in sentence:
a sluggish market;
business is dull (or slow)
Meaning (3):
- moving slowly
Example in sentence:
a sluggish stream;
slow-moving cars
Nearby Words:
slub
slubbed
slubber
slubberdegullion
slubbered
slubbering
slubberingly
slubbing
sludge
sludger
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