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sluggishness

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sluggish  \Slug"gish\,  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. 
 
  Matter,  being  impotent,  sluggish,  and  inactive,  hath 
  no  power  to  stir  or  move  itself  --Woodward. 
 
  And  the  sluggish  land  slumbers  in  utter  neglect. 
  --Longfellow. 
 
  4.  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}.  --  {Slug"gish*ly}, 
  adv  --  {Slug"gish*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sluggishness 
  n  1:  a  state  of  comatose  torpor  [syn:  {lethargy},  {lassitude}] 
  2:  an  unusual  lack  of  energy  [syn:  {languor},  {lethargy}]




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