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Slow   /sloʊ/   Listen
Slow

adjective
(compar. slower; superl. slowest)
1.
Not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time.  "The slow lane of traffic" , "Her steps were slow" , "He was slow in reacting to the news" , "Slow but steady growth"
2.
At a slow tempo.
3.
Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.  Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse.  "Never met anyone quite so dim" , "Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick" , "Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions" , "He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse" , "Worked with the slow students"
4.
(used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time.
5.
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.  Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome.  "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" , "Tedious days on the train" , "The tiresome chirping of a cricket" , "Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
6.
(of business) not active or brisk.  Synonyms: dull, sluggish.  "A sluggish market"
verb
(past & past part. slowed; pres. part. slowing)
1.
Lose velocity; move more slowly.  Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow down, slow up.
2.
Become slow or slower.  Synonyms: slack, slacken, slow down, slow up.
3.
Cause to proceed more slowly.  Synonyms: slow down, slow up.
adverb
1.
Without speed ('slow' is sometimes used informally for 'slowly').  Synonyms: easy, slowly, tardily.  "Go easy here--the road is slippery" , "Glaciers move tardily" , "Please go slow so I can see the sights"
2.
Of timepieces.  Synonym: behind.  "My watch is running behind"



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"Slow" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the chiefs of the country are laid upon biers under which a slow fire is lighted which consumes the flesh, little by little, but leaves the bones and the skin intact. These dried bodies are then piously preserved, as though they were their penates. The Spaniards say that in one district they saw a man being thus dried ...
— De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) - The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera • Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt
... part, was not slow to perceive his advantage, and he would willingly have paid his addresses to Mademoiselle de la Motte in person, and won her heart and hand for himself, before speaking to her father on the subject; but as such a proceeding would not have been ...
— The Lost Lady of Lone • E.D.E.N. Southworth
... what the man was saying, in his slow way—"is that I could find words to tell you, if I could remember what it is I have to tell. But when I try to bring it back, my head fails. Tell me again, mademoiselle, about the railway-carriage." Sally ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... she entreated Jos to go. Not he. He was slow of movement, tied to his Doctor, and perhaps to some other leading-strings. At least Becky was not anxious ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... subject-matter. Latin scholarship which shall be at the same time broad and accurate, including not only a mastery of the language but also a comprehensive view of the various phases of Roman life and thought, will, it is believed, be best assured by the slow and careful reading of some portions of the literature and by the rapid survey of others. Certainly of the shorter Latin classics few would more fully repay close and careful study of both language and thought than these charming colloquies on Old Age and Friendship. ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero


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