Found 3 hits - Term: sluggishness, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : 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.
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"gishly, adv. --
slug"gishness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
inert slug"gishly slug"gishness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sluggishness
n 1: a state of comatose torpor as found in sleeping sickness
syn: lethargy, lassitude
2: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy syn: languor,
lethargy, phlegm
see also:
lethargy lassitude languor phlegm
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
19 moby thesaurus words for "sluggishness":
hebetude, idleness, indolence, laggardness, languidness, languor,
lassitude, laze, laziness, lethargy, lifelessness, phlegm,
pococurantism, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch,
stagnation, torpor
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