Harper Reed

Don't eat the pizza; get lots of sleep - you have to take care of yourself. It's about being your tip top self at all times, and if you are unhealthy, or you're sick, or you don't feel good, even it's just because you're sluggish, you're not going to make it because you're not going to be able to react to things.

American Businessman

Kai Ryssdal

The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don't run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That's how I know that the workouts are working - I miss them if I don't have them.

American Journalist

Josie Loren

If I eat junk food and have a workout the next day, I feel a significant difference in the way my body responds to exercise. I'm sluggish, tired and run out of energy very quickly.

American Actress

Jose Angel Gurria

In the face of sluggish growth, aging societies, and increasing educational attainment of young women, the economic case for gender equality is clear.

Mexican Economist

Joo Won

I believe almost every men have some kind of fantasy for action scenes. I'm one of them, and I just can't be so sluggish.

South Korean Actor

Samuel Johnson

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

English Writer

Brian May

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

English Musician

John W. Gardner

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

American Educator

Sean Astin

I'm much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated.

American Actor

Mandy Ingber

If you're feeling sluggish, do a back bend.

Describes someone or something moving with less speed or energy than expected.

Physical Slowness

Use 'sluggish' to describe a temporary condition, not a permanent trait.

Temporary State

Often used when someone is slow to start activity or respond after being idle.

After Inactivity

Implies a lack of physical or mental energy or motivation in what is being described.

Lack of Energy

Useful for describing someone's temporary mood or feeling, not their personality.

Mood Descriptor

Often a result of external factors like poor sleep, illness, or boredom.

Effect of Circumstance

Used to describe slow growth or a lack of economic energy and health.

Economic Indicator

Refers to companies or markets not performing or growing as fast as expected.

Business Performance

A sluggish market or economy can influence investment and business decisions.

Impacts Investments

 Fortunately, they're accustomed to targeting sluggish prey. Meanwhile, the night is also buzzing with insects, such as hawk moths, which can see their favorite flowers in color, even on a starlit night. They achieve this by a surprising move - getting rid of details in their visual perception.

How do animals see in...

 And so that's superimportant. Then tomorrow, if I didn't get enough sleep tonight, I'm going to -- my frontal lobe's not going to want to drag itself into its day job and do the work of paying attention today, right? You feel sluggish, like, "Ah, I can't pay attention. What?"

How Your Memory Works --...

 As a pregnancy progresses, the uterus expands upward and outward with the growing fetus. To make room, hormones called progesterone and relaxin signal muscles to loosen. The muscles that propel food and waste through the digestive tract also loosen, which makes them sluggish,

The surprising effects...

 Elevated testosterone levels, elevated levels of stress hormones, and your amygdala is going to be more active and your frontal cortex will be more sluggish. Pushing back further, weeks to months before, where's the relevance there? This is the realm of neural plasticity,

The biology of our best...

 depends entirely on the environment become sluggish in colder waters. But a bluefin’s ability to keep warm means it has sharper vision, can better process information, and can swim faster than its prey. It thrives in cold, deep, subarctic water.

Meet the bluefin tuna,...

 the fly closes in and slurps its nectar. But this pitcher species has an ingredient called coniine in its nectar, a powerful narcotic to insects. As the coniine takes effect, the fly grows sluggish, stumbles, and falls down the funnel

The wild world of...

 on the back of consumers massively overborrowing. Consumers paying off that debt is one of the main reasons why our economic recovery is so sluggish today. And everybody of course knows that the federal government debt is growing

Robert Gordon: The death...

 Let's suspend the laws of physics for a moment, and pretend that your molecular self can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish,

Making waves: The power...

 impassive, sluggish, lethargic, placid, calm, mellow, laid-back and, well, slothful! I am relaxed and tranquil, and I like to live in peace. But I am not lazy.' Then the sloth yawned and said, 'That's just how I am.

A librarian's case...

 Most goblin sharks are 10 to 12 feet long, but they can grow much bigger, sluggish until they attack.

Sluggish

Physical Slowness

Temporary State

After Inactivity

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