Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sluggishness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Sluggish \Slug"gish\, a.
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

sluggishness
n 1: a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)
[syn: {lethargy}, {lassitude}]
2: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy [syn: {languor},
{lethargy}, {phlegm}]

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