sluggish
About 1.47 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
a sluggish man
- adjective Slow; having little motion.
- adjective Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
- adjective Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
- adjective Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth.
Inflation has been rising despite a sluggish economy.
Similar words
torpid dull slow inert inactive lethargic lazy weak feeble slowness
Often followed by
and in stream or streams growth economy river to
Word family
sluggishly sluggishness sluggishnesses
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