English-Portuguese translations for sluggish

• devagar
• inerte
• lento
  Igualmente em Chipre, Senhor Deputado Kyprianou, os progressos são ainda muito lentos. In Cyprus, too, Mr Kyprianou, progress is still very sluggish.
  A execução do Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento tem-se processado igualmente a um ritmo lento.The rate of implementation of the European Development Funds is just as sluggish.
  Alguns Estados-Membros agem com grande vigor, enquanto outros são muito lentos. Some Member States proceed with great vigour, while others are very sluggish.
• moroso
  A segurança jurídica não exige complexidade nem procedimentos morosos. Exige simplicidade e eficácia. Legal certainty does not require complexity or sluggish processes, but rather simplicity and effectiveness.
• vadio
• vagabundo

Definition of sluggish

• Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive
• Slow; having little motion
• Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert
• Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple

Examples

• a sluggish man
• Inflation has been rising despite sluggish economy.
• So sluggish a conceit

Related words

• sluggishness
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