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Shambles vs Sluggishness - What's the difference?

shambles | sluggishness |

As nouns the difference between shambles and sluggishness

is that shambles is work done in a poor fashion while sluggishness is the property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.

As a verb shambles

is third-person singular of shamble.

shambles

English

Noun

(-)
  • work done in a poor fashion
  • a scene of great disorder or ruin
  • a great mess or clutter
    • This website is a shambles .
  • a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation
  • a slaughterhouse
  • (archaic) a butcher's shop
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting

    Derived terms

    * omnishambles * shambolic * shambly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shamble)

    • sluggishness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
  • The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
  • * 2012 , , Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty? :
  • ** And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.