sluggish

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• moving slowly
  • "a sluggish stream"
• (of business) not active or brisk
  • "a sluggish market"
• slow and apathetic
  • "a sluggish worker"

Adj

• Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
• Slow; having little motion.
• Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
• Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
• Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth.

Synonyms

addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, bone-idle, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, crawling, creeping, cretinous, dense, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dozy, dreich, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gastropodous, glacial, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, heavy-footed, idiotic, idle, imbecilic, inane, inching, indolent, inert, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, labored, lackadaisical, lamebrained, lazy, lead-footed, leaden, lethargic, lither, low-speed, lowbrow, lumbering, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, plodding, pokey, ponderous, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slothful, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slow-witted, slowfooted, sluggish, smooth-brained, soggy, stately, steady, stolid, stupid, subglacial, sulky, sullen, swear, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, torpid, unapprehensive, unclever, unintelligent, unsmart, unspeedy, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, work-shy

Antonyms

nimble