slow
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch slee, sleeuw (“cramped, stiff; blunt; sour”), Danish sløv (“blunt; dull; apathetic, lethargic, listless, sluggish, torpid; drowsy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted; blunt; jaded”), Norwegian Nynorsk sljo, slø, sløv (“blunt; weak; lazy”), Swedish slö (“dull; lazy, lethargic, slow, sluggish”).
Inflected forms:
form: slower
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slowest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slower
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: slowest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
examples: a slow train; a slow computer
Turkey should always be cooked in a slow oven.
Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
gloss: Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
pos: adj
examples: Theſe changes in the Heav’ns, though ſlow, produc’d / Like change on Sea and Land, ſideral blaſt, / Vapour, and Miſt, and Exhalation hot, / Corrupt and Peſtilent: […]
Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
As of the current patch, Luke’s crouching Medium Punch has been nerfed. It will now have a larger hurtbox, in addition to having a slower recovery when the attack misses.
gloss: Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: Experienced classroom teachers are well acquainted with the attention-seeker, the shy girl, the aggressive boy, the poor concentrator, the slow student,[…]
Hey, don't yell at Homer, just because he's a little slow.
gloss: Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
pos: adj
examples: He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
And even after the emotional cast comes off, we need to be slow about getting deeply involved in a relationship again.
gloss: Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
pos: adj
examples: That clock is slow.
gloss: Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
pos: adj
gloss: Not busy; lacking activity.
pos: adj
examples: It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier.
I'm just sitting here with a desk of cards, enjoying a slow afternoon.
gloss: To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: slow the process
gloss: To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: slow the traffic
gloss: To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
As he passed though the station, he slowed to yell to the signalman, Frank 'Sailor' Bridges: "Sailor - have you anything between here and Fordham? Where's the mail?" Gimbert knew the mail train was due, and he didn't want to endanger another train with his burning bomb wagon.
gloss: Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
pos: noun
gloss: A slow song.
pos: noun
gloss: Slowly.
pos: adv
examples: That clock is running slow.
I want to dance with you nice and slow.
Let him have time to mark how slow time goes / In time of sorrow.
Synonyms: moderate
careful
deliberate
prudent
dilatory
dull
inactive
tardy
slothful
sluggish
boring
crawling
slack
slow-moving
languid
languorous
draggy
creeping
dreich
gastropodous
glacial
heavy-footed
inching
inert
labored
leaden
lead-footed
lethargic
low-speed
lumbering
plodding
pokey
ponderous
slothlike
slow
slow as a snail
slow as Christmas
slow as molasses
slow as molasses in January
slowfooted
stately
steady
subglacial
sullen
tardigrade
tedious
testudineous
torpid
turtleish
turtlesque
unspeedy
Antonyms: fast
quick
rapid
swift
abrupt
sudden
keen
quick-witted
hasty
precipitate
prompt
accurate
brisk
lively
hectic
speedy
Related words: move slowly
forslow
Derived words: digital slow motion
dog slow
go-slow
hyperslow
infraslow
overslow
slofie
Sloman
slo-mo
sloth
slow-acting
slow and steady wins the race
Slowaris
slow as a snail
slow as Christmas
slow as molasses
slow as molasses in January
slowass
slow as tar
slowback
slowbalization
slow ball
slowball
slow-belly
slow belly
slow boil
slow bowler
slow burn
slow burner
slow-burning
slow but sure wins the race
slow clap
slowcoach
slow contact
slow-cook
slow cooker
slowcore
slow dance
slowdown
slow earthquake
slowen
slower than molasses
slower than molasses in January
slow fashion
slow food
slow-footed
slowfooted
slowfox
slow head
slowie
slowish
slow jam
slow lane
slow lemur
slow light
slow loris
slowly
slow march
slow-march
slow match
slow motion
slow-moving
slowness
slow news day
slow off the mark
slow on the uptake
slow oven
slow-paced
slowpitch
slow pitch
slowplay
slowpoke
slow roll
slow slicing
slowsome
slow speed control
slow steaming
slow street
slow study
slowtard
slow television
slowth
slow time
slow train
slow TV
slow-walk
slow wheel
slow-witted
slowworm
superslow
ultraslow
low and slow
slow down
slower
slow in
slow off
slow one's roll
slow out
slow up
unslowed
unslowing
Translations:
lang: Aragonese
word: lento
lang: Bulgarian
word: провле́чен
roman: provléčen
lang: Czech
word: pomalý
lang: Finnish
word: hidas
lang: French
word: lent
lang: German
word: langsam
lang: Greek
word: αργόσυρτος
roman: argósyrtos
lang: Italian
word: lento
lang: Latvian
word: lēns
lang: Macedonian
word: бавен
roman: baven
lang: Māori
word: hōtoa
lang: Māori
word: autō
lang: Portuguese
word: lento
lang: Spanish
word: lento
lang: Swahili
word: pole
lang: Swahili
word: aste
lang: Ukrainian
word: пові́льний
roman: povílʹnyj
lang: Aragonese
word: lento
lang: Bulgarian
word: му́ден
roman: múden
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: mpesi
lang: Finnish
word: hidas
lang: French
word: lent
lang: French
word: tardif
lang: German
word: Zeit lassen
lang: German
word: zurückhaltend
lang: Greek
word: ανέτοιμος
roman: anétoimos
lang: Irish
word: leasc
lang: Swahili
word: pole
lang: Swahili
word: aste
lang: Tibetan
word: བྲེལ་བ་མེད་པ
roman: brel ba med pa