Slow

More definitions of "slow":

• (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): 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"

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

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

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

• (adj): So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.
  Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome

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

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

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

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

Famous quotes containing the word slow:

“Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

“the slow passion
to that deliberate progress.”
—Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

“O you sand,
this is my command,
drown all men in slow breathless suffocation
then they may understand.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)