slug·gish /ˈslʌgɪʃ/
(a.)偷懶的,懶惰的,遲鈍的
slug·gish /ˈsləgɪʃ/ 形容詞
緩慢的,獃滯的
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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sluggish
adj 1: with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish stream"
2: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow]
3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish
worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: inert, torpid]