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slow
[ sloh ]
adjective
- moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity:
a slow train.
Synonyms: unhurried
Antonyms: fast
- characterized by lack of speed:
a slow pace.
Synonyms: unhurried
Antonyms: fast
- taking or requiring a comparatively long time for completion:
a slow meal; a slow trip.
Antonyms: fast
- requiring or taking a long time for growing, changing, or occurring; gradual:
a plant of slow growth.
- made, created, or done in a careful, thorough, or traditional way in order to ensure such benefits as quality, environmental sustainability, or time for mental reflection: What's known as slow journalism is an approach to reporting that avoids superficial headlines and instead focuses on in-depth storytelling and a more considered analysis of events.
Give slow tourism a try as you leisurely explore this charming island, soak in the surrounding nature, and savor local encounters.
What's known as slow journalism is an approach to reporting that avoids superficial headlines and instead focuses on in-depth storytelling and a more considered analysis of events.
- sluggish in nature, disposition, or function.
Synonyms: slothful, lazy, indolent, dilatory, sluggardly
- dull of perception or understanding; mentally dull:
a slow child.
Synonyms: dense
- not prompt, readily disposed, or in haste (usually followed by to or an infinitive):
slow to anger; slow to take offense.
- burning or heating with little speed or intensity, as a fire or an oven.
- slack; not busy:
The market was slow today.
- having some quality that retards speed or causes movement, progress, work, etc., to be accomplished at less than the usual or expected rate of speed: a slow road.
a slow, careful worker;
a slow road.
- running at less than the proper rate of speed or registering less than the proper time, as a clock.
- passing heavily or dragging, as time:
It's been a slow afternoon.
- not progressive; behind the times: a slow town.
- dull, humdrum, uninteresting, or tedious:
What a slow party!
Synonyms: boring
- Photography. requiring long exposure, as by having a small lens diameter or low film sensitivity:
a slow lens or film.
- (of the surface of a race track) sticky from a fairly recent rain and in the process of drying out.
adverb
- in a slow manner; slowly:
Drive slow.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to become slow or slower; slacken in speed (often followed by up or down ).
slow
/ sləʊ /
adjective
- performed or occurring during a comparatively long interval of time
- lasting a comparatively long time
a slow journey
- characterized by lack of speed
a slow walker
- prenominal adapted to or productive of slow movement
the slow lane of a motorway
- (of a clock, etc) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
- given to or characterized by a leisurely or lazy existence
a slow town
- not readily responsive to stimulation; intellectually unreceptive
a slow mind
- dull or uninteresting
the play was very slow
- not easily aroused
a slow temperament
- lacking promptness or immediacy
a slow answer
- unwilling to perform an action or enter into a state
slow to anger
- behind the times
- (of trade, etc) unproductive; slack
- (of a fire) burning weakly
- (of an oven) cool
- photog requiring a relatively long time of exposure to produce a given density
a slow lens
- sport (of a track, etc) tending to reduce the speed of the ball or the competitors
- cricket (of a bowler, etc) delivering the ball slowly, usually with spin
adverb
- in a manner characterized by lack of speed; slowly
verb
- often foll byup or down to decrease or cause to decrease in speed, efficiency, etc
Confusables Note
Derived Forms
- ˈslowness, noun
- ˈslowly, adverb
Other Words From
- slow·ly adverb
- slow·ness noun
- o·ver·slow adjective
- o·ver·slow·ly adverb
- o·ver·slow·ness noun
- ul·tra·slow adjective
- ul·tra·slow·ly adverb
- un·slow adjective
- un·slow·ly adverb
- un·slow·ness noun
- un·slowed adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of slow1
Idioms and Phrases
- mills of the gods grind slowly
- on the uptake, slow
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
They’ve really worked out a good way to tease out very subtle, slow temporal changes.
That’s because coastal wetlands would sop up the excess water, slowing the surge upstream.
In the longer term, of course, we need to slow down climate change.
Restaurant and catering sales fell 7% year-on-year in August, a slower pace than July’s 11% drop and June’s nearly 33% decrease.
Without a vaccine readily available, it has been challenging to get people to engage in enough of the behaviors that can help slow the virus.
Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
First, as opposition to gay marriage collapses, American anti-LGBT activists will slow their battle against it.
“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.
“Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.
One of the honor guard approached with slow, measured steps and presented the flag to a uniformed captain.
“The sepoys have come in from Meerut,” he announced with the slow tick of the earliest form of apparatus.
It is not surprising after this to learn that some children are slow in seizing the representative character of acting.
And he was not slow to notice that his visitor looked fatter each time he saw him.
This is a slow process, but earnest hearts and united minds will render it a sure one.
I believe so, and I make it a point both with my pupils and myself to practice slow motions.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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