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Meaning of slow
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
slow
adv 1: 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" [syn: {slowly}, {slow}, {easy},
{tardily}] [ant: {apace}, {chop-chop}, {quickly},
{rapidly}, {speedily}]
2: of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch
is running behind" [syn: {behind}, {slow}]
adj 1: 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" [ant: {fast}]
2: at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" [ant: {fast}]
3: 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" [syn: {dense}, {dim}, {dull}, {dumb},
{obtuse}, {slow}]
4: (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the
correct time; "the clock is slow" [ant: {fast}]
5: 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" [syn: {boring}, {deadening},
{dull}, {ho-hum}, {irksome}, {slow}, {tedious}, {tiresome},
{wearisome}]
6: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or
slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: {dull}, {slow}, {sluggish}]
v 1: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
[syn: {decelerate}, {slow}, {slow down}, {slow up},
{retard}] [ant: {accelerate}, {quicken}, {speed}, {speed
up}]
2: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: {slow},
{slow down}, {slow up}, {slack}, {slacken}]
3: cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
[syn: {slow}, {slow down}, {slow up}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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