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English Dictionary: slow by the DICT Development Group
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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"
    Synonym(s): slowly, slow, easy, tardily
    Antonym(s): apace, chop-chop, quickly, rapidly, speedily
  2. of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Antonym(s): fast
  2. at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz"
    Antonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
  4. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow"
    Antonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): dull, slow, sluggish
v
  1. lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
    Synonym(s): decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard
    Antonym(s): accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up
  2. become slow or slower; "Production slowed"
    Synonym(s): slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken
  3. cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"
    Synonym(s): slow, slow down, slow up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slow \Slow\, obs.
      imp. of {Slee}, to slay. Slew. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slow \Slow\, a. [Compar. {Slower}; superl. {Slowest}.] [OE.
      slow, slaw, AS. sl[be]w; akin to OS. sl[?]u blunt, dull, D.
      sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. sl[?]o blunt, dull, Icel. sl[?]r,
      sl[?]r, Dan. sl[94]v, Sw. sl[94]. 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.
  
      2. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
  
                     These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced
                     Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as,
            slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
  
                     Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard
                     their shore from an expected foe.      --Dryden.
  
      4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation;
            tardy; inactive.
  
                     He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
                                                                              --Prov. xiv.
                                                                              29.
  
      5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true
            time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
  
      6. Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of
            arts and sciences.
  
      7. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome;
            dull. [Colloq.] --Dickens. Thackeray.
  
      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.
  
      {Slow coach}, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.]
  
      {Slow lemur}, or {Slow loris} (Zo[94]l.), 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}.
  
      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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slow \Slow\, adv.
      Slowly.
  
               Let him have time to mark how slow time goes In time of
               sorrow.                                                   --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slow \Slow\, v. i.
      To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up
      before crossing the bridge.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Slow \Slow\, n.
      A moth. [Obs.] --Rom. of R.
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