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sluggish
What does sluggish mean?
sluggish (adjective): slow; having little motion.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use sluggish in a sentence?
- A sluggish stream. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce sluggish?
/ˈslʌɡɪʃ/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does sluggish come from?
From slug + -ish.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to sluggish
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “sluggish” mean?
silent; not making a sound
Not quite: that's what mute means.
slow; having little motion
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huge, gigantic, very large
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having a sharp inclination
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