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3. sluggish, lagging, laggard, sluggardly; dallying, dillydallying, idling; dilatory, procrastinating, postponing, deferring; lackadaisical, indolent, slothful, otiose.
4. dull, unintelligent, witless, slow-witted, dull-witted, stolid, obtuse, crass, Boeotian, bovine, blockish, lumpish; dense, thick-headed, Inf. thick, stupid, Australian Inf. dill, Scot. and North Eng. dowf; backward, doltish, SI. birdbrained, simple; empty-headed, vacuous; unimaginative, undiscerning.
5. slack, not busy, inactive, unhurried, quiet, peaceful; gentle, easy, unpressured; creeping, crawling.
6. dragging, draggy, protracted, lengthened, spun-out, drawn-out, prolonged, never-ending, interminable, dragged-out.
7. behind the times, unprogressive, conservative, backward, SI. not with it, SI. square.
8. dull, uninteresting, tedious, tiresome, boring, bore-some, wearisome, SI. dead, dry, dry-as-dust; uneventful, humdrum, monotonous, ordinary.
9. Usu.
slow to reluctant, disinclined, unwilling, half-hearted, loath, hesitant, hesitating.
-v. 10. Often
slow up or
down retard, SI. hang up, delay; detain, hold back, set back, check, hold in check, restrict, restrain; put the brakes on, reduce speed, take it easy, relax.
11. Often
slow down subside, slack, ebb, recede, retrocede; dwindle, peter out; wind down, deescalate; fall off, taper off, wane, fade away, die out.
sludge, n. mud, muck, mire, ooze, slime, Inf. glop, Inf. gunk, SI. guck, Inf. goo, SI. goop; slush, slosh, mush, squash, slop, swill, Irish, slob,
sluggish, adj. slow, slow-moving, slow-going, snail-paced, snail-like, moving at a snail's pace, crawling, creeping, Inf. poky; inert, inactive, stagnant, torpid, supine; lumpish, lethargic, phlegmatic, heavy, dull, languid, languorous, hebetudinous, lentitudinous; sleepy, drowsy, somnolent, slumberous, yawny.
sluggishness, n. 1. languor, languidness, laggardness, Archaic, languishment; inertia, inactivity, stagnation, torpor, supineness, Archaic, lenitude, (in the Middle East) kef; lifelessness, inanimateness, inanimation, spiritlessness, listlessness, apathy, indifference, Inf. the blahs; phlegm, lethargy, heaviness, lumpishness, dullness, hebetudinousness; somnolence, sleepiness, drowsiness, doziness.
2. laziness, idleness, indolence, sloth, slothfulness, acedia, faineance, otiosity, do-nothingness; unindus-triousness, unenterprisingness, unambitiousness, want or lack of ambition or enterprise, nonaggressiveness; lackadaisicalness, insouciance, pococurantism; shiftlessness, worthlessness, good-for-nothingness.
slum, n. Usu.
slums warren, ghetto, shanty town, (in Jamaica) Trenchtown, Hell's Kitchen, hell's halfacre, Hooverville, skid row, Inf rookeries,
slumber, v. 1. doze, drowse, nap, catnap, take a nap, take a siesta, nod off, drop off, Inf. snooze, Inf. snatch or catch forty winks, Inf. catch some shut-eye, SI. zizz, Brit. SI. doss; sleep, count sheep, rest in the arms of Morpheus, visit the sandman, go to the land of Nod, SI. log Z's, SI. catch some Z's, SI. saw logs or wood.
-n. 2. sleep, repose, the arms of Morpheus, land of Nod, slumberland, dreamland, Inf. beddy-bye, SI. shut-eye.
3. nap, cat nap, siesta, Inf. snooze, Inf. forty winks.
4. abeyance, dormancy, suspense, suspended animation.
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