slow
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Definitions & Usage
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.
(informal, somewhat derogatory) 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.
(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.
Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
(music) A slow song.
Slowly.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake, and cringing suddenly, leaped up, repeating in impassioned pain, "I buried him, my life, my soul!"”
— 1854, Herman Melville, “The Encantadas”, in Putnam's Magazine:
“Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.”
— 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
“Theſe changes in the Heav’ns, though ſlow, produc’d / Like change on Sea and Land, ſideral blaſt, / Vapour, and Miſt, and Exhalation hot, / Corrupt and Peſtilent: […]”
— 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [Mm3], verso, lines 692–695: