SLUGGISH

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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

2.
a.

Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.

3.
a.

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.
a.

Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." Milton.


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