sluggish
sluggish
Definition
slug·gish (slug′is̸h)
slug′·gishly adverb
slug′·gish·ness noun
sluggish
Synonyms
sluggish
Usage Examples
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.
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