| Verb | 1. | slow - lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"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 fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" delay, detain, 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" | |
| 2. | slow - become slow or slower; "Production slowed"weaken - become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" | |
| 3. | slow - cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"bog, bog down - cause to slow down or get stuck; "The vote would bog down the house" constipate, clog - impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today" | |
| Adj. | 1. | 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"delayed - caused to be slower or later; "the delayed plane finally arrived" 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" fast - acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly; "fast film"; "on the fast track in school"; "set a fast pace"; "a fast car" | |
| 2. | slow - at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz"music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner fast - at a rapid tempo; "the band played a fast fox trot" | |
| 3. | 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"stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | |
| 4. | slow - (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow"fast - (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time; "my watch is fast" | |
| 5. | 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"uninteresting - arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip" | |
| 6. | slow - (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"inactive - lacking activity; lying idle or unused; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" | |
| Adv. | 1. | slow - 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"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | |
| 2. | slow - of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" | |