slow

[Slow]

Slow things don't move fast, but take a while to get where they're going or do what they're doing. Traveling on a slow train might be fun, but you'll get to California faster on a plane.

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imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

Verb
lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"

Verb
become slow or slower; "Production slowed"

Verb
cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"

Adjective S.
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

Adjective S.
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 mak

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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"

Adjective
at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz"

Adjective
(used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow"

Adjective S.
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";

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"

Adverb
of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"


imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

superl.
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.

superl.
Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.

superl.
Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.

superl.
Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.

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

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

superl.
Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.

adv.
Slowly.

v. t.
To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer.

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

n.
A moth.

Slow

Slow , obs. imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

Slow

Slow , a. [Compar. Slower ; superl. Slowest.] [OE. slow, slaw, AS. sl'bew; akin to OS. slu blunt, dull, D. sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. slo blunt, dull, Icel. slr, slr, Dan. sl'94v, Sw. sl'94. 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.
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.
4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
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. &hand; 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, ∨ Slow loris (Zo'94l.), 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

Slow, adv. Slowly.
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow.

Slow

Slow, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slowed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Slowing.] To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer. Shak.

Slow

Slow, v. i. To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge.

Slow

Slow, n. A moth. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.

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.

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.

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Usage Examples

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

Death by starvation is slow.

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.