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Stoical vs Sluggish - What's the difference?

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Stoical is a related term of sluggish.


As adjectives the difference between stoical and sluggish

is that stoical is enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint while sluggish is habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.

stoical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.

    • Derived terms

    * stoically

    Related terms

    * stoic / Stoic * stoicism

    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