sluggish

sluggish
    adj 1: moving slowly; "a sluggish stream" [syn: {sluggish},
           {sulky}]
    2: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
       slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: {dull}, {slow}, {sluggish}]
    3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
       worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: {inert},
       {sluggish}, {soggy}, {torpid}]
    

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}.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Slug"gish*ly}, adv. --
        {Slug"gish*ness}, n.
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215 Moby Thesaurus words for "sluggish":
      Laodicean, Micawberish, Olympian, abeyant, affluent, aloof,
      ambling, apathetic, backward, benumbed, blah, blase, blunt,
      blunt-witted, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, circumspect,
      claudicant, comatose, confluent, costive, coursing, crawling,
      creeping, creeping like snail, dallying, dead, debilitated,
      decurrent, defluent, delaying, deliberate, desensitized, detached,
      diffluent, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted, disinterested,
      dopey, dormant, down, dragging, draggy, droopy, drugged, dull,
      dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, easy,
      easygoing, enervated, exanimate, faltering, fat-witted, flagging,
      flat, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, foot-dragging, foul,
      gentle, gradual, groggy, gross-headed, gulfy, gushing, halting,
      heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle,
      in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate,
      indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical,
      laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, latent, lax, lazy, leaden,
      leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limping, lingering, listless, logy,
      loitering, lumbering, lumpish, mazy, meandering, moderate,
      moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obtuse, off, passive,
      phlegmatic, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, pouring,
      procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, profluent,
      racing, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, resigned, running, rushing,
      sated, sauntering, sedentary, serpentine, shuffling, slack,
      sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses,
      slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged,
      slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing,
      slow-stepped, slow-witted, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering,
      snail-paced, snaillike, somnolent, soporific, spiritless,
      spunkless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static,
      stiff, stoic, streaming, strolling, stultified, stupefied, stupid,
      supine, surging, surgy, suspended, tame, tentative, thick-brained,
      thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, tidal,
      toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike,
      unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhurried, uninterested,
      vegetable, vegetative, vortical, waddling, wan, weary, withdrawn,
      wooden, world-weary