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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. moving slowly;
- Example: "a sluggish stream"
[syn: sluggish, sulky]

2. (of business) not active or brisk;
- Example: "business is dull (or slow)"
- Example: "a sluggish market"
[syn: dull, slow, sluggish]

3. slow and apathetic;
- Example: "she was fat and inert"
- Example: "a sluggish worker"
- Example: "a mind grown torpid in old age"
[syn: inert, sluggish, soggy, torpid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sluggish \Slug"gish\, a.
   1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a
      sluggish man.
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   2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
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   3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
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            Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath
            no power to stir or move itself.      --Woodward.
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            And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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   4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
      [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." --Milton.
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   Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow;
        dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert.
        [1913 Webster] -- Slug"gish*ly, adv. --
        Slug"gish*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sluggish
    adj 1: moving slowly; "a sluggish stream" [syn: sluggish,
           sulky]
    2: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
       slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish]
    3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
       worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert,
       sluggish, soggy, torpid]