'Slow' definitions:

Definition of 'slow'

(from WordNet)
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" [syn: slowly, slow, easy, tardily] [ant: apace, chop-chop, quickly, rapidly, speedily]
adverb
Of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" [syn: behind, slow]
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" [ant: fast]
adjective
At a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" [ant: fast]
adjective
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 make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]
adjective
(used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow" [ant: fast]
adjective
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"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
adjective
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish]
verb
Lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard] [ant: accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up]
verb
Become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken]
verb
Cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up]

Definition of 'Slow'

From: GCIDE
  • Slow \Slow\ (sl[=o]), obs. imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Slow'

From: GCIDE
  • Slow \Slow\ (sl[=o]), a. [Compar. Slower (sl[=o]"[~e]r); superl. Slowest.] [OE. slow, slaw, AS. sl[=a]w; akin to OS. sl[=e]u blunt, dull, D. sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. sl[=e]o blunt, dull, Icel. sl[=o]r, sl[ae]r, Dan. sl["o]v, Sw. sl["o]. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late. [1913 Webster]
  • These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue. [1913 Webster]
  • Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive. [1913 Webster]
  • He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. --Prov. xiv. 29. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [Colloq.] --Dickens. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Slow coach, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.]
  • Slow lemur, or Slow loris (Zool.), 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Dilatory; late; lingering; tardy; sluggish; dull; inactive.
  • Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Slow'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Slow'

From: GCIDE
  • Slow \Slow\, v. i. To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Slow'

From: GCIDE
  • Slow \Slow\, n. A moth. [Obs.] --Rom. of R. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Slow'

From: GCIDE
  • Slow \Slow\, adv. Slowly. [1913 Webster]
  • Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of sorrow. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'slow'

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Words containing 'Slow'