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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sluggish \Slug"gish\, adjective
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}, adverb -- {Slug"gish*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sluggish
adjective
1: with little movement; very slow; "a sluggish stream"
2: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: {dull}, {slow}]
3: slow and apathetic; "she was fat and inert"; "a sluggish worker"; "a mind grown torpid in old age" [syn: {inert}, {torpid}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
215 Moby Thesaurus words for "sluggish": Laodicean, Micawberish, Olympian, abeyant, affluent, aloof, ambling, apathetic, backward, benumbed, blah, blase, blunt, blunt-witted, bored, cataleptic, catatonic, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, comatose, confluent, costive, coursing, crawling, creeping, creeping like snail, dallying, dead, debilitated, decurrent, defluent, delaying, deliberate, desensitized, detached, diffluent, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted, disinterested, dopey, dormant, down, dragging, draggy, droopy, drugged, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, easy, easygoing, enervated, exanimate, faltering, fat-witted, flagging, flat, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, foot-dragging, foul, gentle, gradual, groggy, gross-headed, gulfy, gushing, halting, heartless, heavy, hebetudinous, hobbled, hobbling, hopeless, idle, in a stupor, in abeyance, in suspense, inactive, inanimate, indifferent, indolent, inert, insouciant, jaded, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languorous, latent, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, lifeless, limping, lingering, listless, logy, loitering, lumbering, lumpish, mazy, meandering, moderate, moribund, nonchalant, numb, numbed, obtuse, off, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, poking, poky, pooped, pouring, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, profluent, racing, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, resigned, running, rushing, sated, sauntering, sedentary, serpentine, shuffling, slack, sleeping, sleepy, slothful, slow, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-witted, slumbering, slumberous, smoldering, snail-paced, snaillike, somnolent, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, standing, static, stiff, stoic, streaming, strolling, stultified, stupefied, stupid, supine, surging, surgy, suspended, tame, tentative, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, tidal, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, unaroused, uncaring, unconcerned, unhurried, uninterested, vegetable, vegetative, vortical, waddling, wan, weary, withdrawn, wooden, world-weary
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