Category:Sluggish

Slug"gish, 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.

Syn. -- inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; Drowsy; inactive. See inert. -- slug"gish*ly, adv. -- slug"gish*ness, n.