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Sluggish vs Sottish - What's the difference?

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Sluggish is a related term of sottish.


As adjectives the difference between sluggish and sottish

is that sluggish is habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man while sottish is alcoholic, drinking heavily.

sluggish

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
    • And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect . --
  • Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
  • Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
    • Matter, being impotent, sluggish , and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself . -- Woodward
  • Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
  • Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
    • Inflation has been rising despite sluggish economy.

    Quotations

    * So sluggish a conceit . --

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * sluggishness

    sottish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • alcoholic, drinking heavily
  • drunk
  • foolish, stupid, senseless
  • :1769 -
  • :For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

    • Quotations

    *Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound. - "The Dead", from "Dubliners" by James Joyce (1914)