Sluggish

Adjective

 * 1) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
 * And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * 1) Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
 * 2) 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
 * 1) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

Quotations

 * So sluggish a conceit. -- John Milton

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:lazy
 * See also Thesaurus:slow

Derived terms

 * sluggishness

Adverbs for Sluggish
strangely; stupidly; loutishly; dully; torpidly; indolently; inertly; supinely; negligently; carelessly; indifferently; lethargically; strangely; unwontedly; unusually; exceptionally; intolerably; provokingly; vexat-iously; hopelessly; wretchedly; unprofitably.

Thesaurus
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

Adverbs for Sluggish
strangely; stupidly; loutishly; dully; torpidly; indolently; inertly; supinely; negligently; carelessly; indifferently; lethargically; strangely; unwontedly; unusually; exceptionally; intolerably; provokingly; vexat-iously; hopelessly; wretchedly; unprofitably.

Translations

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 * Polish: opieszały
 * Spanish: perezoso, haragán, huevón, desganado, aburrido, inútil


 * Chinese:
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 * French: poussif, poussive, faiblard, faiblarde
 * Spanish: lento, calmado, calmo


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 * French: rétamé ,


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: بێ تاقه‌ت
 * Spanish: desganado, apagado , inerte


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 * Spanish: lento, estúpido, tarado, pendejo