Sluggish
['slʌgɪʃ] or ['slʌɡɪʃ]
Definition
(a.) Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
(a.) Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
(a.) Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
(a.) Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inert, inactive, indolent, idle, lazy, slothful, dronish, lumpish, supine, phlegmatic.[2]. Slow, not brisk.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Slow, inert, indolent, phlegmatic, slothful, Iazy
ANT:Active, quick, nervous, laborious
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Examples
- The cylinder stops, and current operates the sluggish press-magnet, causing its armature to be attracted, thus lifting the platen and its projecting arm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Sir Sluggish Knight, replied the Clerk, these are dangerous words, and I pray you to forbear them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Emma's spirits were mounted quite up to happiness; every thing wore a different air; James and his horses seemed not half so sluggish as before. Jane Austen. Emma.
- On the farther bank from me the trees rose thickly again, and shut out the view, and cast their black shadows on the sluggish, shallow water. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But her sluggish and incurious nature was the greatest safeguard of all. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mrs Merdle's verbs were so pressingly presented to Mr Merdle to conjugate, that his sluggish blood and his long coat-cuffs became quite agitated. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This growing indifference on my part served to rouse the sluggish disposition of Meyler. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The lime was burning with a sluggish stifling smell, but the fires were made up and left, and no workmen were visible. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The streams were numerous, deep and sluggish, sometimes spreading out into swamps grown up with impenetrable growths of trees and underbrush. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She made all European progress seem sluggish and tentative by comparison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A man of rapid passions and sluggish intelligence, it had served him often and should serve him again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sir Sluggish Knight, I drink to thee, said the hermit; respecting thy valour much, but deeming wondrous slightly of thy discretion. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They were as two horns which the sluggish heath had put forth from its crown, like a mollusc, and had now again drawn in. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- To see it is to see a vision of home itself and all its idols, and feel a thrill that would stir a very river of sluggish blood! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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