sluggishness
慣性; 惰性; 停滯
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.”
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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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]