Meaning of سست in English

Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
Insensible; unfeeling.
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
To become dull or stupid.
of Dull
Somewhat dull; uninteresting; tiresome.
Dull.
of Idle
Slow; sluggish; backward.
One who lags; a loiterer.
Laggingly.
Pertaining to a lake.
Transparent; -- said of blood rendered transparent by the action of some solvent agent on the red blood corpuscles.
of Language
Drooping or flagging from exhaustion; indisposed to exertion; without animation; weak; weary; heavy; dull.
Slow in progress; tardy.
Promoting or indicating weakness or heaviness; as, a languid day.
of Languish
Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength.
Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.
Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor.
A condition of the body, or mind, when its voluntary functions are performed with difficulty, and only by a strong exertion of the will; languor; debility; weariness.
of Laze
In a lazy manner.
Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
Wicked; vicious.
A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage.
A lazy person.
See Leachy.
Alt. of Lethargical
Pertaining to, affected with, or resembling, lethargy; morbidly drowsy; dull; heavy.
Rare; uncommon; unusual.
Rarely; seldom.
Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.
A valley, or small, shallow dell.
Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.
Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand.
Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.
Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack.
Slackly; as, slack dried hops.
The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it; as, the slack of a rope or of a sail.
Alt. of Slacken
of Slacken
To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.
To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
To abate; to become less violent.
To lose rapidity; to become more slow; as, a current of water slackens.
To languish; to fail; to flag.
To end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
To render slack; to make less tense or firm; as, to slack a rope; to slacken a bandage.
To neglect; to be remiss in.
To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
To cause to become less eager; to repress; to make slow or less rapid; to retard; as, to slacken pursuit; to slacken industry.
To cause to become less intense; to mitigate; to abate; to ease.
A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion.
In a slack manner.
To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
Slouching.
Slow.
A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
To cast off; to discard as refuse.
Full of sloughs, miry.
Resembling, or of the nature of, a slough, or the dead matter which separates from living flesh.
Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
Slowly.
To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.
To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.
A moth.
of Slow
Milk sickness.
of Slubber
In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner.
A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.
Sluggish; lazy.
To make lazy.
The state of being a sluggard; sluggishness; sloth.
Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive; as, a sluggish man.
Slow; having little motion; as, a sluggish stream.
Having no power to move one's self or itself; inert.
Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.
Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail.
Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.
Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing.
A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.
A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo.
The pod of the sanil clover.
of Sober