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

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"

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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.

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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.