Modifying Another Word

• rather: Some rather sluggish running followed to Ferryhill, where we stopped briefly.

• somewhat: This was found to result in the applets having a somewhat sluggish response.

• relatively: He feels inflation will be kept under control due to relatively sluggish growth and favorable commodity prices.

• slightly: An occasionally slightly sluggish performance by the orchestra didn't seem to hinder the fluidity of movement on the stage.

• too: The auto box's pick-up was far too sluggish to be a serious contender.

• quite: Far from surging, growth in European garment imports from China in 2005 may actually have been quite sluggish.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• feel: Why do you think the car feels a bit sluggish?

• make: They can make computers sluggish or cause them to crash.

Modifies a noun

• digestion: Ginger is also known to relieve travel and morning sickness and can improve a sluggish digestion.

• economy: Despite the sluggish economy, almost half of respondents reported growth during the past 12 months.

• bowel: An individual can go into hospital for various x-rays to test for a sluggish bowel.

• circulation: When this high oxygen demand occurs along with sluggish circulation and already oxygen-poor source waters, massive oxygen minima develop.

• growth: He predicts at least two years of sluggish growth.

• pace: To some degree, the sluggish upgrade pace affects the company's revenue.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: His breath came in rasping bursts, his lungs felt sluggish from all the sand he had breathed in.

• remain: Far from there being an upsurge in investment, the real level remains sluggish.

• seem: The spaceships climb rate seemed sluggish to Jeff Tracy's experienced eyes.

• become: White sugar causes these defenders to become sluggish in their work, thereby lowering resistance to disease.

• look: A heavy downpour in the third quarter meant the scoring slowed up and Warrington suddenly looked sluggish in the change of conditions.

• get: I've only used Fireworks a bit but I do find it gets really sluggish.