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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Displaying little movement or activity; slow; inactive: a sluggish stream; sluggish growth.
  2. adj. Lacking alertness, vigor, or energy; inert or indolent.
  3. adj. Slow to perform or respond to stimulation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Slow; having or giving evidence of little motion: as, a sluggish stream.
  2. Idle and lazy, habitually or temporarily; indolent; slothful; dull; inactive.
  3. Inert; inactive; torpid.
  4. Dull; tame; stupid.
  5. Synonyms Lazy, Slothful, etc. (see idle); slack, supine, phlegmatic, apathetic.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
  2. adj. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
  3. adj. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
  4. adj. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
  5. adj. Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive.
  2. adj. Slow; having little motion.
  3. adj. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
  4. adj. rare Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of business) not active or brisk
  2. adj. moving slowly
  3. adj. slow and apathetic

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, probably from slugge, lazy person; see slug2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (13)

Words with the same meaning

  1. inert
  2. inactive
  1. drowsy
  2. idle
  1. dronish
  2. dull
  1. slothful
  2. indolent
  1. slow
  2. lazy
  1. stupid
  2. tame
  1. simple

equivalents (2)

Other words for ‘sluggish’

  1. inactive
  1. slow

same context (17)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. torpid
  2. lazy
  3. slow
  1. listless
  2. stagnant
  3. languid
  1. inactive
  2. sullen
  3. muddy
  1. drowsy
  2. dull
  3. placid
  1. lethargic
  2. indolent
  3. uncertain
  1. timid
  2. clumsy

reverse dictionary (121)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. slugged
  2. sluggish
  3. lumpen
  4. drony
  5. drumble
  6. dull
  7. inergetic
  8. inert
  9. lobcock
  10. dopey
  11. dozy
  12. dilatory
  13. lazy
  14. leaden
  15. heavy
  16. laggard
  17. dystraumia
  18. loggy
  19. bovine
  20. budgerow
  21. oscitant
  22. restily
  23. slothful
  24. slow
  1. slow-witted
  2. sluggard
  3. sluggishly
  4. sluggishness
  5. somnolent
  6. speedless
  7. cluster-fly
  8. tiger beetle
  9. bayou
  10. aslug
  11. cuchia
  12. lash
  13. lethargia
  14. lethargically
  15. constipate
  16. drowsy
  17. phlegmatic
  18. mossback
  19. sullen
  20. waterlogged
  21. sleepy
  22. logy
  23. lymphatic
  24. snail
  1. stagflation
  2. tenebrionid
  3. unthinking
  4. venous thrombosis
  5. yellow pond lily
  6. costive
  7. flat
  8. slack
  9. tardy
  10. active
  11. phascolarctos cinereus
  12. phlebothrombosis
  13. sandbar shark
  14. spatter-dock
  15. squaretail
  16. torpedo
  17. depressed
  18. deadhead
  19. stagnant
  20. tame
  21. jump-start
  22. tardy-gaited
  23. cyprinus carpio
  24. darkling beetle
  1. darkling groung beetle
  2. denisonia superba
  3. dogfish
  4. domestic carp
  5. electric ray
  6. family ogcocephalidae
  7. grindle
  8. kangaroo bear
  9. koala
  10. koala bear
  11. lumpish
  12. native bear
  13. numbfish
  14. nuphar advena
  15. ogcocephalidae
  16. amia calva
  17. banded adder
  18. banded krait
  19. bowfin
  20. bungarus fasciatus
  21. carcharhinus plumbeus
  22. copperhead
  23. cow lily
  24. crampfish
  1. crocodile
  2. restive
  3. resty
  4. sedentary
  5. sloggy
  6. sloomy
  7. slug
  8. sluggy
  9. sprightless
  10. stupid
  11. torpid
  12. weak sore
  13. apathy
  14. backward
  15. inanimate
  16. indolent
  17. languid
  18. lethargic
  19. lifeless
  20. lob
  21. lug
  22. mud-eel
  23. stagnan
  24. dead
  1. layby

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