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sluggishness 音标拼音: [sl'ʌgɪʃnəs] 惯性; 惰性; 停滞 惯性; 惰性; 停滞 sluggishness n 1: a state of comatose torpor ( as found in sleeping sickness) [ synonym: { lethargy}, { lassitude}, { sluggishness}] 2: the pace of things that move relatively slowly; " the sluggishness of the economy"; " the sluggishness of the compass in the Arctic cold" 3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; " the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [ synonym: { languor}, { lethargy}, { sluggishness}, { phlegm}, { flatness}] Sluggish \ Slug" gish\, a. 1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Having no power to move one' s self or itself; inert. [ 1913 Webster] Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. -- Woodward. [ 1913 Webster] And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. [ R.] " So sluggish a conceit." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See { Inert}. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Slug" gish* ly}, adv. -- { Slug" gish* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 19 Moby Thesaurus words for " sluggishness": hebetude, idleness, indolence, laggardness, languidness, languor, lassitude, laze, laziness, lethargy, lifelessness, phlegm, pococurantism, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, slouch, stagnation, torpor
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