Usually means: Slow to act or respond.
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  1. sluggish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sluggish: Merriam-Webster
  3. sluggish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sluggish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sluggish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sluggish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sluggish, sluggish: Wordnik
  8. sluggish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sluggish: Wiktionary
  10. sluggish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sluggish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sluggish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sluggish: Dictionary.com
  14. sluggish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sluggish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sluggish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sluggish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sluggish: Rhymezone
  19. Sluggish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sluggish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sluggish: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sluggish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sluggish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sluggish: Legal dictionary

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  1. sluggish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sluggish: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. Sluggish: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sluggish)

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

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slow, dull, torpid, inert, inactive, lazy, slothful, lethargic, sluggardly, slothy, more...

Opposite:
sprightly, lively, vigorous, vital

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lethargic, drowsy, listless, apathetic, inert, more...

Phrases:
sluggish economy, sluggish metabolism, sluggish schizophrenia, Sluggish cognitive tempo, opposite of sluggish, more...

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Similar:
slow, dull, torpid, inert, inactive, lazy, slothful, lethargic, sluggardly, slothy, more...

Opposite:
sprightly, lively, vigorous, vital

Types:
lethargic, drowsy, listless, apathetic, inert, more...

Phrases:
sluggish economy, sluggish metabolism, sluggish schizophrenia, Sluggish cognitive tempo, opposite of sluggish, sluggish person, sluggish by nature, become sluggish, sluggish crawl, feeling sluggish, more...

Colors:
    olive,     taupe,     beige,     mustard,     khaki, more...



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