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.
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