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# sluggish

adjective (sluggish, more sluggish, most sluggish); adverb sluggishly

«sluggish» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Moving or working slowly, without energy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#m1)
2. (of a machine, body or computer) Slow to respond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#m2)
3. (of money, trade or the economy) Not growing much; slow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#m3)
4. (of a river) Flowing slowly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life you feel sluggish when tired or after a big meal; a sluggish computer is slow. In geography a sluggish river flows slowly across flat land. In news «sluggish sales» or «a sluggish economy» means things are slow. Science: cold-blooded animals like lizards are sluggish when cold.

### Examples

- I feel sluggish after a big Sunday lunch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#x1)
- The laptop is sluggish; it needs restarting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#x2)
- Lizards are sluggish until the sun warms them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#x3)
- The sluggish river wound slowly through the fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#x4)
- Toy sales were sluggish this year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#x5)
- The sluggish traffic made us late for school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#x6)
- He wrestled with the big and sluggish stone, as if it had been a living enemy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/#x7)

### Note

Adjective; from «slug» (the slow creature). Opposites: lively, brisk, quick.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sluggish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sluggish/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sluggish» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sluggish.html) on Mova free.