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slow

English

  1. 🔊 not moving quickly
    “a slow walker”
  2. 🔊 at a slow tempo
    “the band played a slow waltz”
  3. 🔊 (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
    “the clock is slow”
  4. 🔊 (of business) not active or brisk
    “business is dull (or slow)”
  5. 🔊 slow to learn or understand
    “so dense he never understands anything I say to him”
  6. 🔊 so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
    “a boring evening with uninteresting people”
  7. 🔊 without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
    “he spoke slowly”
  8. 🔊 of timepieces
    “the clock is almost an hour slow”
  9. 🔊 become slow or slower
    “Production slowed”
  10. 🔊 cause to proceed more slowly
    “The illness slowed him down”
  11. 🔊 lose velocity
    “The car decelerated”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 calmoso slow
  2. 🔊 lento slow
  3. 🔊 tardo slow, sluggish
  4. 🔊 pausado slow, unhurried
  5. 🔊 cazurro slow, slow-witted
  6. 🔊 lerdo slow, sluggish, of animals

Similar words

decelerate slow down slow up retard slow down slow up slack slacken slow down slow up dull sluggish dense dim dull dumb obtuse boring deadening dull ho-hum irksome tedious tiresome