English

Adjective
sluggish

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.
4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

Quotations
Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. -- Woodward
And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. -- Longfellow
So sluggish a conceit. -- Milton

Derived terms
sluggishness

Translations
trans-top|habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man
Finnish: t+|fi|hidas, t+|fi|laiska, t-|fi|veltto
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trans-top|slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream
Finnish: t+|fi|hidas, t+|fi|hiljainen, t+|fi|heikko
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trans-top|characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple
Finnish: t+|fi|hidas, t-|fi|hidasälyinen, t-|fi|verkkainen
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• 2007-11-28 11:23 - Tbot - updated t/t-/t+ templates, added t for fi

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