sluggish
part of speech
adjective (sluggish, more sluggish, most sluggish); adverb sluggishly
meaning for a pupil
1) Moving or working slowly, without energy. tree →
2) (of a machine, body or computer) Slow to respond. tree →
3) (of money, trade or the economy) Not growing much; slow. tree →
4) (of a river) Flowing slowly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life you feel sluggish when tired or after a big meal; a sluggish computer is slow. In geography a sluggish river flows slowly across flat land. In news «sluggish sales» or «a sluggish economy» means things are slow. Science: cold-blooded animals like lizards are sluggish when cold.
examples
- I feel sluggish after a big Sunday lunch. tree →
- The laptop is sluggish; it needs restarting. tree →
- Lizards are sluggish until the sun warms them. tree →
- The sluggish river wound slowly through the fields. tree →
- Toy sales were sluggish this year. tree →
- The sluggish traffic made us late for school. tree →
- He wrestled with the big and sluggish stone, as if it had been a living enemy. tree →
note
Adjective; from «slug» (the slow creature). Opposites: lively, brisk, quick.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «sluggish» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.