SLOW

dull, slow, sluggish

(adjective) (of business) not active or brisk; “business is dull (or slow)”; “a sluggish market”

dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow

(adjective) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; “so dense he never understands anything I say to him”; “never met anyone quite so dim”; “although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick”- Thackeray; “dumb officials make some really dumb decisions”; “he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse”; “worked with the slow students”

slow

(adjective) not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; “a slow walker”; “the slow lane of traffic”; “her steps were slow”; “he was slow in reacting to the news”; “slow but steady growth”

slow

(adjective) at a slow tempo; “the band played a slow waltz”

slow

(adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; “the clock is slow”

boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome

(adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; “a boring evening with uninteresting people”; “the deadening effect of some routine tasks”; “a dull play”; “his competent but dull performance”; “a ho-hum speaker who couldn’t capture their attention”; “what an irksome task the writing of long letters is”- Edmund Burke; “tedious days on the train”; “the tiresome chirping of a cricket”- Mark Twain; “other people’s dreams are dreadfully wearisome”

slowly, slow, easy, tardily

(adverb) without speed (‘slow’ is sometimes used informally for ‘slowly’); “he spoke slowly”; “go easy here--the road is slippery”; “glaciers move tardily”; “please go slow so I can see the sights”

behind, slow

(adverb) of timepieces; “the clock is almost an hour slow”; “my watch is running behind”

decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard

(verb) lose velocity; move more slowly; “The car decelerated”

slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken

(verb) become slow or slower; “Production slowed”

slow, slow down, slow up

(verb) cause to proceed more slowly; “The illness slowed him down”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

slow (comparative slower, superlative slowest)

Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.

Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.

Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.

(of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.

Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.

(of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.

Synonyms

• (taking a long time to move a short distance): deliberate; moderate; see also slow

• (not happening in a short time): gradual; see also gradual

• (of reduced intellectual capacity): dull-witted; see also stupid

• (acting with deliberation): careful, deliberate, prudent; see also cautious

• (behind in time)

• (lacking spirit): boring, dilatory, dull, inactive, tardy, slothful, sluggish; see also inactive or boring

• (not busy): quiet, unbusy

Antonyms

• (taking a long time to move a short distance): fast, quick, rapid, swift; see also speedy

• (not happening in a short time): abrupt, sudden; see also sudden

• (of reduced intellectual capacity): keen, quick, quick-witted; see also intelligent

• (acting with deliberation): hasty, precipitate, prompt; see also prompt

• (behind in time): accurate, fast

• (lacking spirit): brisk, lively; see also active

• (not busy): hectic

Verb

slow (third-person singular simple present slows, present participle slowing, simple past and past participle slowed)

(transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

(transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.

(intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

Synonyms

• (keep from going quickly): delay, hinder, retard

• (become slow): decelerate, slacken

Noun

slow (plural slows)

Someone who is slow; a sluggard.

(music) A slow song.

Adverb

slow (comparative slower, superlative slowest)

Slowly.

Anagrams

• Lows, OWLs, lows, owls, sowl

Source: Wiktionary

Slow, obs.

Definition: imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

Slow, a. [Compar. Slower; superl. Slowest.] Etym: [OE. slow, slaw, AS. slaw; akin to OS. sl blunt, dull, D. sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. sl blunt, dull, Icel. sl, sl, Dan. slöv, Sw. slö. Cf. Sloe, and Sloth.]

1. 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.

2. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late. These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast. Milton.

3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue. Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe. Dryden.

4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. Prov. xiv. 29.

5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.

6. Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.

7. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [Colloq.] Dickens. Thackeray.

Note: Slow is often used in the formation of compounds for the most part self-explaining; as, slow-gaited, slow-paced, slow-sighted, slow-winged, and the like. Slow coach, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.] -- Slow lemur, or Slow loris (Zoöl.), an East Indian nocturnal lemurine animal (Nycticebus tardigradus) about the size of a small cat; -- so called from its slow and deliberate movements. It has very large round eyes and is without a tail. Called also bashful Billy.

– Slow match. See under Match.

Syn.

– Dilatory; late; lingering; tardy; sluggish; dull; inactive.

– Slow, Tardy, Dilatory. Slow is the wider term, denoting either a want of rapid motion or inertness of intellect. Dilatory signifies a proneness to defer, a habit of delaying the performance of what we know must be done. Tardy denotes the habit of being behind hand; as, tardy in making up one's acounts.

Slow, adv.

Definition: Slowly. Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow. Shak.

Slow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slowing.]

Definition: To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer. Shak.

Slow, v. i.

Definition: To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.

Slow, n.

Definition: A moth. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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