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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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