What does "sluggish" mean?
Sluggish: Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
- 3.Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [R.] "So sluggish a conceit." Milton. See Inert. -- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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