sluggishly

1. 1.

   in a sluggish manner

   “the smoke rose sluggishly”

Questions about sluggishly

What does sluggishly mean?

sluggishly means "in a sluggish manner".

How many syllables are in sluggishly?

sluggishly has 3 syllables: slug-gish-ly. The stress falls on "slug". In IPA it is /ˈslʌɡɪʃli/.

Is sluggishly a common word?

sluggishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.