different between shambles vs sluggishness

English

Etymology

From Old English s?amul. A borrowing from Vulgar Latin scamellum, scamillum (“little bench, ridge”), from Latin scamnum (“bench, ridge, breadth of a field”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æmbl?z/

Noun

shambles (plural shambles)

1. work done in a poor fashion
2. a scene of great disorder or ruin
3. a great mess or clutter

   This website is a shambles.

4. a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation
5. a slaughterhouse
6. (archaic) a butcher's shop

   • Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake.

   • 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

     As to our city of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting […]

Derived terms

• omnishambles
• shambolic
• shambolism
• shambly

Translations

Verb

shambles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shamble

English

Etymology

sluggish +? -ness

Noun

sluggishness (usually uncountable, plural sluggishnesses)

1. The property of being sluggish, unable or unwilling to act quickly.
2. The state of economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.
   • 2012, Javier Solana, Project Syndicate, Whose Sovereignty?:

     And we see such interdependence even more clearly in their economic performance: China’s annual GDP growth rate, for example, will slow by two percentage points this year, owing to sluggishness in the United States and the EU.

Antonyms

• (property of being sluggish): nimbleness

Translations