slow
IPA: sɫˈoʊ
noun
- Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
- (music) A slow song.
verb
- (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
- (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
- (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
adjective
- 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.
- Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
- Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
- Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
- (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
adverb
- Slowly.
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Examples of "slow" in Sentences
- He's not a slow plodder.
- The drag slows the spacecraft.
- It's normally mournful and slow.
- The movement is feverish and slow.
- The diffusion of the liquid is slow.
- The release of the prisoners was slow.
- Retrorockets on the side of the car slowed the vehicle.
- The movement of the molecules are slow using transporters.
- The fourth movement of the Serenade is a tranquil, wistful slow movement.
- The slow movement is a dramatic dialogue between the soloist and the orchestra.
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