Synonyms of the word sluggish


SLUGGISHDULL - INACTIVE - INERT - SLOW - SOGGY - SULKY - TORPID

sluggish

  • adj. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive.
  • adj. Slow; having little motion.
  • adj. Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
  • adj. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
  • adj. Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.

dull

  • adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
  • adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
  • adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
  • adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
  • adj. Sluggish, listless.
  • adj. Cloudy, overcast.
  • adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
  • adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
  • adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
  • adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
  • v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
  • v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
  • v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
  • v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

inactive

  • adj. Not active, temporarily or permanently.
  • adj. Not functioning or operating; broken down.
  • adj. Retired from duty or service.
  • adj. (chemistry) Relatively inert.
  • adj. (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

inert

  • adj. Unable to move or act; inanimate.
  • adj. Sluggish or lethargic.
  • adj. In chemistry, not readily reacting with other elements or compounds.
  • adj. Having no therapeutic action.
  • n. (chemistry) A substance that does not react chemically.

slow

  • adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
  • adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
  • adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
  • adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
  • adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
  • adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
  • adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
  • v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
  • n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
  • n. (music) A slow song.
  • adv. Slowly.

soggy

  • adj. Soaked with moisture or other liquid.

sulky

  • adj. (often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset.
  • n. A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
  • n. Any carriage seating only the driver.

torpid

  • adj. unmoving.
  • adj. dormant or hibernating.
  • adj. lazy, lethargic or apathetic.
  • n. (Britain, Oxford University slang) An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.

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