sluggishness

Noun
Synonyms: lethargylassitudelanguorphlegmflatness

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

  1. a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)Synonyms: lethargylassitude
  2. the pace of things that move relatively slowly“the sluggishness of the economy”“the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold”
  3. inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy“the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends”Synonyms: languorlethargyphlegmflatness
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Sluggish \Slug"gish\, a.

1.Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. [1913 Webster]

2.Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. [1913 Webster]

3.Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert. [1913 Webster]

Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.— Woodward.[1913 Webster]
And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.— Longfellow.[1913 Webster]

4.Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. [1913 Webster] -- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

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