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sluggishly

adv

Etymology

From sluggish + -ly.

  1. inherited from slugge — “lazy person", also "sloth, slothfulness”
  2. suffixed as sluggish — “slug + ish”
  3. suffixed as sluggishly — “sluggish + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a sluggish manner

    In a sluggish manner; responding or moving slowly.

    • It hung together in banks, flowing sluggishly down the slope of the land and driving reluctantly before the wind[.]
    • "Their survival to this day tells us Mars' mantle has evolved sluggishly over billions of years," Charalambous said. "On Earth, features like these may well have been largely erased."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sluggishly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA