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Definition: Sluggishly |
SluggishlyAdverb1. In a sluggish manner; "the smoke rose sluggishly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sluggishly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
Crosswords: Sluggishly |
| English words defined with "sluggishly": Aslug ♦ Droil ♦ Inertly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sluggishly": QUICK AND NIMBLE. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | An evil smell, faint and foul as the light, curled upwards sluggishly out of the canisters and from the stale crusted dung |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She moved sluggishly to the box and picked up a washed dish |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Panama | Panama's economy in 2001 continues to grow sluggishly, as it struggles to overcome the departure of the US military, high oil prices, low prices for Panama's primary exports, and reduced investment resulting from an inconsistent and tentative economic policy. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sluggishly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sluggishly" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sluggishly": sluggishly-coughed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sluggishly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 慢吞吞地. (various references) | |
German | träger (beam, bearer, braces, cantilever, carrier, carriers, girder, holder, joist, litter, porter, porters, representative, shoulder strap, sponsor, strap, strecher, support, supporter, supporters, upholder, vector, vehicle, wearer, winner), faul (addled, bad, decayed, dubious, dud, feeble, fishy, flimsy, foul, idle, idly, indolent, laggard, lame, lazily, lazy, off, phoney, phony, putrid, rotten, rottenly, slothful, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, sorry, suspicious, uneasy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tunyán, lomhán (slack, to slouch away). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | のろけ話 (at leisure, carefree, leisure, slowly, speaking fondly of, tranquility), のけ者 (although, as well as, because of ..., besides, extra-high-speed Toukai-line shinkansen, for the sake of, in order to, in spite of, on the occasion of, only, outcast, slowly, so that, that being the case, unconcernedly), まし取る (endlessly, I guess, indicate reason, infers some protest, loose, pouring liquid, prevaricating, seems, slovenly, to be lazy, to be slack, to be unsuccessful, to fail, to feel dull, to feel languid, to feel listless, to take something away by deception). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | のぞのぞ (slowly), のろのろ (slowly), ら ら (endlessly, pouring liquid, prevaricating). (various references) | |
Korean | 게으르게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uggishlyslay.(various references) | |
Russian | вяло (drowsily, flabbily). (various references) | |
Spanish | inactivamente (dormantly, dull, full, inactively, quiescently, slumberously, stagnantly, statically). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sluggishly" (pronounced slu"gishlē) |
| 4 | -i sh l ē | bearishly, devilishly, lavishly, girlishly, slavishly, stylishly. |
| 3 | -sh l ē | bullishly, especially, feverishly, foolishly, freshly, harshly, lushly, sheepishly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-h-i-l-l-s-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: sluggish, slushily. | |
-3 letters: gushily. | |
-4 letters: ghylls, gluily, lushly, shills, slushy, uglily. | |
-5 letters: ghyll, gills, gilly, glugs, gulls, gully, gushy, gussy, hills, hilly, hilus, hissy, hulls, hussy, iglus, lysis, shill, shily, shuls, sighs, sills, silly, slily, slugs, slush, sughs, sully, sushi, sylis, yills. | |
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