Dictionary Definition
sluggish adj
1 with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish
stream"
2 (of business) not active or brisk; "business is
dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow]
3 slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a
sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert, torpid]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
sluggishQuotations
- Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. -- Woodward
- And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. -- Longfellow
- So sluggish a conceit. -- Milton
Derived terms
Translations
habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull;
inactive; as, a sluggish man
- Finnish: hidas, laiska, veltto
slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish
stream
- Dutch: langzaam
- Finnish: hidas, hiljainen, heikko
having no power to move one's self or itself;
inert
- Finnish: jähmeä, verkkainen
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: بێ تاقهت
characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid;
tame; simple
- Finnish: hidas, hidasälyinen, verkkainen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Laodicean, Micawberish, Olympian, abeyant, affluent, aloof, ambling, apathetic, backward, benumbed, blah, blase, blunt, blunt-witted, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, confluent, costive, coursing, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail,
dallying, dead, debilitated, decurrent, defluent, delaying, deliberate, desensitized, detached, diffluent, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted, disinterested, dopey, dormant, down, dragging, draggy, droopy, drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed,
dull-pated, dull-witted, easy, easygoing, enervated, exanimate, faltering, fat-witted,
flagging, flat, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gradual, groggy, gross-headed, gulfy, gushing, halting, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle, in a stupor, in abeyance, in
suspense, inactive,
inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limping, lingering, listless, logy, loitering, lumbering, lumpish, mazy, meandering, moderate, moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obtuse, off, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, pouring, procrastinating,
procrastinative,
procrastinatory,
profluent, racing, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, resigned, running, rushing, sated, sauntering, sedentary, serpentine, shuffling, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as
molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going,
slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running,
slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-witted, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, snail-paced,
snaillike, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stiff, stoic, streaming, strolling, stultified, stupefied, stupid, supine, surging, surgy, suspended, tame, tentative, thick-brained,
thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, tidal, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhurried, uninterested, vegetable, vegetative, vortical, waddling, wan, weary, withdrawn, wooden,
world-weary