Found 2 items, similar to Sluggishness.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sluggishness
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sluggishness
Sluggish
\Slug"gish\, a.
1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a
sluggish man.
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2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
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3. Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
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Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath
no power to stir or move itself. --Woodward.
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And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect.
--Longfellow.
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4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
[R.]
“So sluggish a conceit.” --Milton.
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Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow;
dull; drowsy; inactive. See
Inert.
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Slug"gish*ly, adv. --
Slug"gish*ness, n.
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