Slow

More definitions of "slow":

• (verb): Become slow or slower.
  Synonyms: slow down, slow up, slack, slacken

• (adv): Without speed ('slow' is sometimes used informally for 'slowly').
  Example: "Please go slow so I can see the sights"
  Synonyms: slowly, easy, tardily

• (adj): At a slow tempo.
  Example: "The band played a slow waltz"

• (verb): Lose velocity; move more slowly.
  Synonyms: decelerate, slow down, slow up, retard

• (adj): Not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time.
  Example: "A slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth"

• (verb): Cause to proceed more slowly.
  Synonyms: slow down, slow up

• (adj): (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time.
  Example: "The clock is slow"

• (adv): Of timepieces.
  Example: "The clock is almost an hour slow"
  Synonyms: behind

• (adj): (of business) not active or brisk.
  Synonyms: dull, sluggish

• (adj): Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity.
  Example: "Worked with the slow students"
  Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse

Famous quotes containing the word slow:

“John, Jake or Charley, hopping the slow freight
—Memphis to Tallahassee—riding the rods,
Blind fists of nothing, humpty-dumpty clods.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)

“Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

“Where the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings
and darker beak.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)