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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.

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. 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.

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