Definition of slow Slow
/slowˈ/ - [slow] - slow
We found 41 definitions of slow from 8 different sources.
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What does slow mean?
WordNet
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| slow - become slow or slower; "Production slowed" | ||
| slow down, slow up, slack, slacken | ||
| weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" | ||
| slow - cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down" | ||
| slow down, slow up | ||
| decelerate, slow, slow up, retard, slow down reduce the speed of; "He slowed down the car" | ||
| bog, bog down get stuck while doing something; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" | ||
| constipate, clog cause to be constipated; "These foods tend to constipate you" | ||
| slow - lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" | ||
| decelerate, slow down, slow up, retard | ||
| accelerate, speed up, quicken, speed move faster; "The car accelerated" | ||
| decrease, diminish, lessen, fall decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" | ||
| slow, slow up, slow down become slow or slower; "Production slowed" | ||
| detain, delay, hold up cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform" | ||
Adjectiveslow, slower, slowest |
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| slow - 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" | ||
| fast (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time; "a fast lens" | ||
| gradual proceeding in small stages; "a gradual increase in prices" | ||
| unhurried relaxed and leisurely; without hurry or haste; "people strolling about in an unhurried way"; "an unhurried walk"; "spoke in a calm and unhurried voice" | ||
| swiftness, fastness, speed the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment | ||
| bumper-to-bumper used of traffic; "bumper-to-bumper traffic" | ||
| dilatory, laggard, pokey, poky wasting time | ||
| drawn-out (used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels | ||
| lazy moving slowly and gently; "up a lazy river"; "lazy white clouds"; "at a lazy pace" | ||
| long-play, long-playing (used of records) playing at a slower speed and for a longer time than earlier records | ||
| slow-moving moving slowly; "slow-moving cars" | ||
| slow - at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" | ||
| fast (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time; "a fast lens" | ||
| music musical activity (singing or whistling etc.); "his music was his central interest" | ||
| adagio (of tempo) leisurely | ||
| andante (of tempo) moderately slow | ||
| lento (of tempo) slow | ||
| lentissimo (of tempo) very slow | ||
| largo very slow in tempo and broad in manner | ||
| larghetto (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | ||
| larghissimo (of tempo) as slow and broad as possible | ||
| slow - (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow" | ||
| slow - 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" | ||
| boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome | ||
| uninteresting characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food" | ||
| slow - 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" | ||
| dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse | ||
| stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | ||
| slow - (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" | ||
| dull, sluggish | ||
| inactive not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature" | ||
| business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- slow (Noun)
Someone who is slow; a sluggard. - slow (Noun)
A slow song. - slow (Verb)
To make something run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. - slow (Verb)
To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. - slow (Verb)
To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. - slow (Adverb)
Slowly. - slow (Adjective)
Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed. - slow (Adjective)
Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time. - slow (Adjective)
Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend. - slow (Adjective)
Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation. - slow (Adjective)
Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time. - slow (Adjective)
Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness. - slow (Adjective)
Not busy; lacking activity.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- slow
imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. - slow (superl.)
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. - slow (superl.)
Not happening in a short time; gradual; late. - slow (superl.)
Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue. - slow (superl.)
Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive. - slow (superl.)
Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow. - slow (superl.)
Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences. - slow (superl.)
Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. - slow (adv.)
Slowly. - slow (v. t.)
To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay; as, to slow a steamer. - slow (v. i.)
To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up before crossing the bridge. - slow (n.)
A moth.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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slow
With low speed. -
slow
Reduce the velocity. -
slow
To become slower.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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slow
slō, adj. not swift: late: behind in time: not hasty: not ready: not progressive.—v.t. to delay, retard, slacken the speed of.—v.i. to slacken in speed.—n. Slow′back, a lazy lubber.—p.adj. Slow′-gait′ed (Shak.), accustomed to walk slowly.—ns. Slow′-hound, sleuth-hound; Slow′ing, a lessening of speed.—adv. Slow′ly.—ns. Slow′-match, generally rope steeped in a solution of saltpetre and lime-water, used for firing guns before the introduction of friction tubes, and sometimes for firing military mines, now superseded by Bickford's fuse, a train of gunpowder enclosed in two coatings of jute thread waterproofed; Slow′ness.—adj. Slow′-sight′ed, slow to discern; Slow′-winged, flying slowly.—n. Slow′-worm, a scincoid lizard, same as Blind-worm—by popular etymology 'slow-worm,' but, according to Skeat, really 'slay-worm,' A.S. slá-wyrm. [A.S. sláw; Dut. slee, Ice. sljór.]
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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slow
Slow and sure.
Wikipedia 
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Slow is an adjective to talk about a low speed, move or tempo.
If a moving is slow, then to arrive somewhere keeps long time.
Slow animals are the snail, coala, Sloth. The old cars are slowers then the new ones.
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🔤- slow, verb, present, 1st person singular of slow (infinitive).
- slow, verb (infinitive).
- slow, adjective.
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