sluggisher

Adjective

sluggish (comparative sluggisher or more sluggish, superlative sluggishest or most sluggish)

1. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
   • a sluggish man

   Synonyms:

   bone-idle, fainéant, idle, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lazy, lither, otiose, slothful

2. Slow; having little motion.
   • Vp thou tame River, vvake; / And from the liquid limbes this ſlumber ſhake: / Thou drovvn'st thy ſelfe in inofficious ſleepe; / And theſe thy ſluggiſh vvaters ſeeme to creepe, / Rather than flovv.1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable...

   Synonyms:

   crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, tardy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous

   Antonyms:

   nimble

3. Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
   • Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself.1695, John Woodward, An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth and Terrestrial Bodies
4. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.

   Synonyms:

   addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, soft, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded

5. Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow, or subnormal growth.
   • Inflation has been rising despite a sluggish economy.