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SLUGGISH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slow and apathetic
Example:
a mind grown torpid in old age
Synonyms:
inert; sluggish; soggy; torpid
Classified under:
Similar:
inactive (not active physically or mentally)
Derivation:
sluggishness (inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of business) not active or brisk
Example:
a sluggish market
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
inactive (lacking activity; lying idle or unused)
Domain category:
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Derivation:
sluggishness (the pace of things that move relatively slowly)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Moving slowly
Example:
a sluggish stream
Synonyms:
sluggish; sulky
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
slow (not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time)
Derivation:
sluggishness (the pace of things that move relatively slowly)
Context examples:
Having thus, amid a general titter, played very prettily with his interrupter, the lecturer went back to his picture of the past, the drying of the seas, the emergence of the sand-bank, the sluggish, viscous life which lay upon their margins, the overcrowded lagoons, the tendency of the sea creatures to take refuge upon the mud-flats, the abundance of food awaiting them, their consequent enormous growth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
