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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
“Looking ahead, e-commerce growth is expected to continue… albeit at a slower pace.”
Those winds will continue at times well into Sunday and Monday as Storm Bert makes slow progress eastward across the UK.
Distractions slow the reaction time of automated vehicle remote drivers by over five seconds, new research has shown.
Children aged between three and seven who are slower at acquiring skills to manage their intense emotions were also found to be at risk of displaying more conduct issues.
Until now, however, they've focused primarily on detecting gamma rays from these axions' slow transformation into photons in the magnetic fields of galaxies.
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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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