Inanimate vs Sluggish - What's the difference?
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Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object .
Not being, and never having been alive.
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(grammar) Not animate.
(obsolete) To animate.
Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
As adjectives the difference between inanimate and sluggish
is that inanimate is lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object while sluggish is habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.As a noun inanimate
is something that is not alive.As a verb inanimate
is to animate.inanimate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.}}
Antonyms
* (grammar) animateVerb
(inanimat)- (John Donne)
sluggish
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect . --
- Matter, being impotent, sluggish , and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself . -- Woodward
- Inflation has been rising despite sluggish economy.