Sluggish vs Tepid - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between sluggish and tepid

is that sluggish is habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man while tepid is lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

(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.

* So sluggish a conceit . --

* See also * See also

* sluggishness

(-)

Lukewarm; neither warm nor cool.

I'm drinking a cup of tepid water.

Uninterested; exhibiting little passion or eagerness.

He gave me a tepid response to the proposal.

* (neither warm nor cool) lukewarm * (exhibiting little passion) uninterested, lukewarm * See also

* tepidness