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| 1. | [ adjective ] not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time | |
| Examples: | "a slow walker" "the slow lane of traffic" "her steps were slow" "he was slow in reacting to the news" "slow but steady growth" |
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| Related terms: | fast lazy sluggish bumper-to-bumper slow-moving drawling dragging dawdling long-play delayed gradual unhurried speed | |
| 2. | [ verb ] lose velocity; move more slowly | |
| Synonyms: | slow_down decelerate retard slow_up | |
| Examples: | "The car decelerated" |
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| Related terms: | accelerate decrease delay deceleration | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] (music) at a slow tempo | |
| Examples: | "the band played a slow waltz" |
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| Related terms: | fast music lentissimo largo andante larghetto moderato larghissimo lento adagio | |
| 4. | [ adverb ] without speed | |
| Synonyms: | slowly tardily easy | |
| Examples: | "he spoke slowly" "go easy here--the road is slippery" "glaciers move tardily" (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly' as in "please go slow I want to see the sights") |
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| Related terms: | quickly colloquialism | |
| 5. | [ verb ] become slow or slower | |
| Synonyms: | slacken slow_down slow_up slack | |
| Examples: | "Production slowed" |
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| Related terms: | weaken slump | |
| 6. | [ verb ] cause to proceed more slowly | |
| Synonyms: | slow_down slow_up | |
| Examples: | "The illness slowed him down" |
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| Related terms: | decelerate bog_down clog slowdown | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity | |
| Synonyms: | dumb dull dim obtuse dense | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | stupid | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | |
| Synonyms: | boring dull tedious wearisome irksome tiresome ho-hum deadening | |
| Examples: | "a boring evening with uninteresting people" "the deadening effect of some routine tasks" "a dull play" "a ho-hum speaker" "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke |
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| Related terms: | uninteresting | |
| 9. | [ adverb ] of timepieces | |
| Synonyms: | behind | |
| Examples: | "the clock is almost an hour slow" "my watch is running behind" |
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| 10. | [ adjective ] (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time | |
| Examples: | "the clock is slow" |
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| Related terms: | fast | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] (of business) not active or brisk | |
| Synonyms: | dull sluggish | |
| Examples: | "business is dull (or slow)" "a sluggish market" |
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| Related terms: | commercial_enterprise inactive | |
| Similar spelling: |
slew slaw Sliwa sl sly SLE Slye slue sloe Slee slay |
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