Slow

Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * a slow train
 * 1) Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
 * These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast. --Milton
 * 1) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
 * John is very slow; he is ten seconds behind everybody else when it comes to math.
 * 1) Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
 * He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. --Prov. xiv. 29.
 * 1)  Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
 * That clock is slow.
 * 1)  That takes a long time to transfer data.
 * 2) Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
 * 3)  Not busy; lacking activity.
 * It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier.
 * I'm just sitting here with a desk of cards, enjoying a slow afternoon.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:slow
 * deliberate; moderate
 * gradual
 * dull-witted
 * dilatory, inactive, tardy, slothful, sluggish
 * boring, dull

Antonyms

 * fast, quick, rapid, swift
 * prompt, quick
 * hasty, precipitate, prompt
 * brisk, lively

Derived terms

 * slow motion, slo-mo
 * slow-belly
 * slow burn


 * slowish
 * slowly
 * slowness


 * slowpoke

Verb

 * 1)  To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
 * 2)  To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
 * 3)  To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

Synonyms

 * delay, hinder, retard
 * decelerate, slacken

Derived terms

 * slower
 * slow up
 * slow down

Noun
slow


 * 1) Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
 * 2)  A slow song.

Adverb
slow


 * 1)  Slowly (usually in combinations).

Thesaurus
Boeotian, Micawberish, after time, almost unheard-of, ambling, apathetic, arid, arrest, arrested, averse, back, backpedal, backward, backwater, balking, balky, barren, behind, behind the times, behind time, behindhand, belated, belatedly, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, blocked, blockish, bloodless, blunt, blunt-witted, bone-lazy, bored, boring, bovine, brake, cadging, carefully, cautious, cautiously, characterless, check, circumspect, circumspectly, claudicant, clip the wings, cloddish, cold, colorless, conservative, crawling, crawlingly, creeping, creeping like snail, creepingly, curb, dallying, dawdling, dead, dead-and-alive, debilitated, decelerate, deep into, delay, delayed, delayed-action, delaying, deliberate, deliberately, dense, detain, detained, dilatorily, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted, disinclined, dismal, do-nothing, doless, doltish, dopey, dormant, dragging, draggy, draw rein, drearisome, dreary, dronish, drony, droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed, dull-pated, dull-witted, dumb, dunch, dusty, ease off, ease up, easily, easy, easygoing, effete, elephantine, empty, enervated, ergophobic, etiolated, exanimate, fade, faineant, faltering, falteringly, far on, fat-witted, feebleminded, flagging, flat, foot-dragging, gentle, gently, good-for-nothing, gradual, gross-headed, grudging, half-witted, halting, haltingly, hasteless, heavy, hebetudinous, held up, hesitant, ho-hum, hobbled, hobbling, hold back, hold in check, hold up, hollow, humdrum, hung up, idle, idly, imbecile, impede, in a bind, in abeyance, in low gear, in march time, in slow motion, in slow tempo, inactive, inane, inanimate, indifferent, indisposed, indolent, indolently, inert, inexcitable, infrequent, insipid, jaded, jammed, jejune, keep back, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languidly, languorous, languorously, late, latish, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, let down, let up, lethargic, lifeless, limited, limping, limpingly, lingering, lingeringly, listless, loath, loitering, loiteringly, lollygagging, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, low-spirited, lumbering, lumpish, measurable, measured, moderate, moderately, monotonous, moratory, moribund, moronic, never on time, nonaggressive, none too soon, not with it, numb, obstruct, obstructed, obtuse, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, out of date, out of it, overdue, pale, pallid, parasitic, pedestrian, perceptible, perfunctory, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, pokily, poking, pokingly, poky, ponderous, pooped, procrastinating, procrastinative, procrastinatory, progressive, quiet, rare, reef, rein in, relax, relaxed, relaxedly, reluctant, reluctantly, remiss, renitent, restive, retard, retarded, rusty, sated, sauntering, scarce, scrounging, seldom met with, seldom seen, set back, shiftless, shuffling, simple, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, sleepy, slothful, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow down, slow to, slow up, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-witted, slowly, sluggish, sluggishly, snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, somnolent, soporific, sparse, spiritless, sponging, square, staggering, stagnant, stagnating, stay, steady, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stolid, stopped, straggling, strolling, stuffy, stultified, stupid, superficial, supine, take in sail, take it easy, tame, tardily, tardy, tarryingly, tasteless, tedious, tentative, tentatively, thick, thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted, thickskulled, throttle down, tiresome, toddling, torpid, tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, uncommon, under easy sail, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, uneventful, unfrequent, unhasty, unhurried, unhurriedly, unimaginative, unintelligent, uninteresting, unique, unlively, unproductive, unprogressive, unpunctual, unready, unresponsive, untimely, unusual, unwilling, unzealous, vapid, vegetable, vegetative, waddling, wan, wearisome, weary, with agonizing slowness, with deliberation, wooden, work-shy, world-weary

Etymology
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Adjective

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 * Korean: 느린
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Anagrams

 * lows
 * owls
 * sowl

Noun

 * 1) slow waltz

Etymology
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