sluggishadjective
uk/ˈslʌɡ.ɪʃ/us/ˈslʌɡ.ɪʃ/moving or operating more slowly than usual and with less energy or power:
A heavy lunch makes me sluggish in the afternoon.
Something is wrong with the car - the engine feels sluggish.
The housing market has been very sluggish these past few years.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- infiltration
- labour
- mill
- slowpoke
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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sluggishly
adverb uk/ˈslʌɡ.ɪʃ.li/us/ˈslʌɡ.ɪʃ.li/
sluggishness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈslʌɡ.ɪʃ.nəs/us/ˈslʌɡ.ɪʃ.nəs/