sluggish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite moving slowly
    sulky.
    • a sluggish stream
  2. adjective satellite (of business) not active or brisk
    slow; dull.
    • business is dull (or slow)
    • a sluggish market
  3. adjective satellite slow and apathetic
    soggy; inert; torpid.
    • she was fat and inert
    • a sluggish worker
    • a mind grown torpid in old age

WordNet

Slug"gish adjective
Definitions
  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." Milton. Syn. -- Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. -- Slug"gish*ly, adv. -- Slug"gish*ness, n.

Webster 1913