Dead and Sluggish

Dead

Dead adjective - Lacking in gaiety, movement, or animation.
Usage example: the store is often dead after 4:00 p.m.

Sluggish is a synonym for dead in property topic. In some cases you can use "Sluggish" instead an adjective "Dead", when it comes to topics like inert.

Nearby Word: deadly

Sluggish

Sluggish adjective - Slow to move or act.
Usage example: reptiles are naturally sluggish at low temperatures

Dead is a synonym for sluggish in property topic. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead an adjective "Sluggish", if it concerns topics such as inert.

Nearby Words: sluggishness, sluggishly

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Living Dead Series Although generally considered the Trope Codifier, particularly with the huge, sluggish mobs of zombies in the original Dawn of the Dead, there are exceptions in the films as well.
  • He pulls off some of the most destructive and Bad Ass stunts seen in One Piece yet, and he does it all as a sluggish, half-dead shadow of the man he used to be.
  • Stop Motion Starting from 1909 he created documentaries about insects using puppets made out of wax, gutta-percha, wire and dead insect parts.note First he tried filming live insects, but hot bright lamps made them too sluggish.
    Source: Stop Motion
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