SLUGGISH

sluggish. Sluggish, a. lazy, slothful, sleepy, dull, heavy

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Slug″gish (?), a. 1. 1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
2. 2. Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
3. 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. 4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple. “So sluggish a conceit.” Milton.
Syn. — Inert; idle; lazy; slothful; indolent; dronish; slow; dull; drowsy; inactive. See Inert. — Slug″gish‐ly, adv. — Slug″gish‐ness, n.