[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slow \slow\ sl=o, obs. imp. of slee, to slay.
   slew. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
slee 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slow \slow\ sl=o, a. compar. slower sl=o"~er;
   superl. slowest. oe. slow, slaw, as. sl=aw; akin to os.
   sl=eu blunt, dull, d. sleeuw, slee, sour, ohg. sl=eo
   blunt, dull, icel. sl=or, slaer, dan. sl"ov, sw.
   sl"o. cf. sloe, and sloth.
   1. moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift;
      not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as,
      a slow stream; a slow motion.
      1913 webster

   2. not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
      1913 webster

            these changes in the heavens, though slow, produced
            like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as,
      slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
      1913 webster

            fixed on defense, the trojans are not slow
            to guard their shore from an expected foe. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation;
      tardy; inactive.
      1913 webster

            he that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
                                                  --prov. xiv.
                                                  29.
      1913 webster

   5. behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true
      time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
      1913 webster

   6. not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of
      arts and sciences.
      1913 webster

   7. heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome;
      dull. colloq. --dickens. thackeray.
      1913 webster

   note: slow is often used in the formation of compounds for
         the most part self-explaining; as, slow-gaited,
         slow-paced, slow-sighted, slow-winged, and the like.
         1913 webster

   slow coach, a slow person. see def.7, above. colloq.

   slow lemur, or slow loris zool., an east indian
      nocturnal lemurine animal nycticebus tardigradus about
      the size of a small cat; -- so called from its slow and
      deliberate movements. it has very large round eyes and is
      without a tail. called also bashful billy.

   slow match. see under match.
      1913 webster

   syn: dilatory; late; lingering; tardy; sluggish; dull;
        inactive.

   usage: slow, tardy, dilatory. slow is the wider term,
          denoting either a want of rapid motion or inertness of
          intellect. dilatory signifies a proneness to defer, a
          habit of delaying the performance of what we know must
          be done. tardy denotes the habit of being behind hand;
          as, tardy in making up one's acounts.
          1913 webster
see also:
slower slowest sloe sloth slow coach slow lemur 
slow loris nycticebus tardigradus bashful billy slow match match 
slow tardy dilatory 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slow \slow\, adv.
   slowly.
   1913 webster

         let him have time to mark how slow time goes
         in time of sorrow.                       --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slow \slow\, v. t. imp.  p. p. slowed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   slowing.
   to render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay;
   as, to slow a steamer. --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
slowed slowing 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slow \slow\, v. i.
   to go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up
   before crossing the bridge.
   1913 webster

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slow \slow\, n.
   a moth. obs. --rom. of r.
   1913 webster

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
     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, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
     6: of business not active or brisk; "business is dull or
        slow"; "a sluggish market" syn: dull, sluggish
     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, easy, tardily
            ant: quickly
     2: of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch
        is running behind" syn: behind
     v 1: lose velocity; move more slowly; "the car decelerated" syn:
           decelerate, slow down, slow up, retard ant: accelerate
     2: become slow or slower; "production slowed" syn: slow down,
         slow up, slack, slacken
     3: cause to proceed more slowly; "the illness slowed him down"
        syn: slow down, slow up
see also:
fast dense dim dull dumb obtuse 
boring deadening ho-hum irksome tedious 
tiresome wearisome sluggish slowly easy 
tardily quickly behind decelerate slow down 
slow up retard accelerate slack slacken 

[8] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

383 moby thesaurus words for "slow":
   boeotian, micawberish, after time, almost unheard-of, ambling,
   apathetic, arid, arrest, arrested, averse, back, backpedal,
   backward, backwater, balking, balky, barren, behind,
   behind the times, behind time, behindhand, belated, belatedly,
   benumbed, blah, blank, blase, blocked, blockish, bloodless, blunt,
   blunt-witted, bone-lazy, bored, boring, bovine, brake, cadging,
   carefully, cautious, cautiously, characterless, check, circumspect,
   circumspectly, claudicant, clip the wings, cloddish, cold,
   colorless, conservative, crawling, crawlingly, creeping,
   creeping like snail, creepingly, curb, dallying, dawdling, dead,
   dead-and-alive, debilitated, decelerate, deep into, delay, delayed,
   delayed-action, delaying, deliberate, deliberately, dense, detain,
   detained, dilatorily, dilatory, dillydallying, dim, dim-witted,
   disinclined, dismal, do-nothing, doless, doltish, dopey, dormant,
   dragging, draggy, draw rein, drearisome, dreary, dronish, drony,
   droopy, drugged, dry, dryasdust, dull, dull of mind, dull-headed,
   dull-pated, dull-witted, dumb, dunch, dusty, ease off, ease up,
   easily, easy, easygoing, effete, elephantine, empty, enervated,
   ergophobic, etiolated, exanimate, fade, faineant, faltering,
   falteringly, far on, fat-witted, feebleminded, flagging, flat,
   foot-dragging, gentle, gently, good-for-nothing, gradual,
   gross-headed, grudging, half-witted, halting, haltingly, hasteless,
   heavy, hebetudinous, held up, hesitant, ho-hum, hobbled, hobbling,
   hold back, hold in check, hold up, hollow, humdrum, hung up, idle,
   idly, imbecile, impede, in a bind, in abeyance, in low gear,
   in march time, in slow motion, in slow tempo, inactive, inane,
   inanimate, indifferent, indisposed, indolent, indolently, inert,
   inexcitable, infrequent, insipid, jaded, jammed, jejune, keep back,
   lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, languid, languidly, languorous,
   languorously, late, latish, lax, lazy, leaden, leisurely, let down,
   let up, lethargic, lifeless, limited, limping, limpingly,
   lingering, lingeringly, listless, loath, loitering, loiteringly,
   lollygagging, lose ground, lose momentum, lose speed, low-spirited,
   lumbering, lumpish, measurable, measured, moderate, moderately,
   monotonous, moratory, moribund, moronic, never on time,
   nonaggressive, none too soon, not with it, numb, obstruct,
   obstructed, obtuse, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, out of date,
   out of it, overdue, pale, pallid, parasitic, pedestrian,
   perceptible, perfunctory, phlegmatic, plodding, pointless, pokily,
   poking, pokingly, poky, ponderous, pooped, procrastinating,
   procrastinative, procrastinatory, progressive, quiet, rare, reef,
   rein in, relax, relaxed, relaxedly, reluctant, reluctantly, remiss,
   renitent, restive, retard, retarded, rusty, sated, sauntering,
   scarce, scrounging, seldom met with, seldom seen, set back,
   shiftless, shuffling, simple, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken,
   sleepy, slothful, slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow,
   slow down, slow to, slow up, slow-crawling, slow-foot, slow-going,
   slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced, slow-poky, slow-running,
   slow-sailing, slow-stepped, slow-witted, slowly, sluggish,
   sluggishly, snail-paced, snaillike, solemn, somnolent, soporific,
   sparse, spiritless, sponging, square, staggering, stagnant,
   stagnating, stay, steady, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stolid, stopped,
   straggling, strolling, stuffy, stultified, stupid, superficial,
   supine, take in sail, take it easy, tame, tardily, tardy,
   tarryingly, tasteless, tedious, tentative, tentatively, thick,
   thick-brained, thick-headed, thick-pated, thick-witted,
   thickskulled, throttle down, tiresome, toddling, torpid,
   tortoiselike, tottering, trudging, turtlelike, uncommon,
   under easy sail, unenterprising, unenthusiastic, uneventful,
   unfrequent, unhasty, unhurried, unhurriedly, unimaginative,
   unintelligent, uninteresting, unique, unlively, unproductive,
   unprogressive, unpunctual, unready, unresponsive, untimely,
   unusual, unwilling, unzealous, vapid, vegetable, vegetative,
   waddling, wan, wearisome, weary, with agonizing slowness,
   with deliberation, wooden, work-shy, world-weary

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