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sluggish - Meaning and Examples

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