Crossword clues for sluggish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluggish \Slug"gish\, a.
Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
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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.
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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. [1913 Webster] -- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle English slugge "lazy person" (see sluggard) + -ish. Earlier adjective was sluggi (early 13c.). Related: Sluggishly; sluggishness.
Wiktionary
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. 4 Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. 5 Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
WordNet
Usage examples of "sluggish".
The population was derived almost wholly from the agriculturists of the old order, and since agriculture had been considered a sluggish and base occupation, fit only for sluggish natures, the planet was now peopled with yokels.
The bus stops were built of tall glass tubes, aquaculture cylinders, murky green soups full of algae and fat, sluggish carp.
Sluggish and disoriented, he turned his head and saw Azar sitting beside his sleeping couch.
And the shallows where the Baptist had previously performed his ministry were now so sluggish he had been forced to move from there to another site.
True to its name, the sluggish, mud-brown Blabbermouth babbled loudly and unceasingly, allowing no one to be heard above it without effort.
And he writes down Crick in his notebook, one letter at a time, because his hand is sluggish from the heat.
Tim selected this heading with a click and cursed the draggy modem, the draggy server, and the sluggish program.
By an expiring blue-shot beam of moonlight, Farina beheld a vast realm of gloom filling the hollow of the West, and the moon was soon extinguished behind sluggish scraps of iron scud detached from the swinging bulk of ruin, as heavily it ground on the atmosphere in the first thunder-launch of motion.
He was yet only halfway across, and already the fibroid life attached to the underside of the raft had made it heavy and sluggish and dangerously low in the water.
Kush awakened slowly, his senses still sluggish from the wine he had guzzled at the feast the night before.
If the creatures were not labile enough, or were sluggish, it might be too difficult to get them started.
It was trapped between the sluggish Leine on one side and an ordinary Hanover street on the other, and so it would never have gardens or even a decent forecourt.
Though morbidly sensitive to changes in his physical surroundings, he would be slow to act upon such sensations, would not prove impulsive, not because he was sluggish, but because he was merely irresolute.
By the time the sky paled to the east, revealing mists in the lowlands, she was grainy-eyed and sluggish.
The bridegroom, Reland, had toasted more liberally than many of the others and was sluggish and slow as he braced his broad hands on the table and pushed himself to his feet.