Definitions for slow

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Spelling: [sloh]

IPA: /sloʊ/

Slow is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in slow (losw).

Definitions for slow

adverb

1. in a slow manner; slowly:

adjective

1. moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity:
2. characterized by lack of speed:
3. taking or requiring a comparatively long time for completion:
4. requiring or taking a long time for growing, changing, or occurring; gradual:
5. sluggish in nature, disposition, or function.
6. dull of perception or understanding; mentally dull:
7. not prompt, readily disposed, or in haste (usually followed by to or an infinitive):
8. burning or heating with little speed or intensity, as a fire or an oven.
9. slack; not busy:
10. having some quality that retards speed or causes movement, progress, work, etc., to be accomplished at less than the usual or expected rate of speed:
11. running at less than the proper rate of speed or registering less than the proper time, as a clock.
12. passing heavily or dragging, as time:
13. not progressive; behind the times: a slow town.
14. dull, humdrum, uninteresting, or tedious:
15. Photography. requiring long exposure, as by having a small lens diameter or low film sensitivity:
16. (of the surface of a race track) sticky from a fairly recent rain and in the process of drying out.

verb (used with object)

1. to make slow or slower (often followed by up or down).
2. to retard; reduce the advancement or progress of:

verb (used without object)

1. to become slow or slower; slacken in speed (often followed by up or down).

Origin of slow

before 900; Middle English; Old English slāw sluggish, dull; cognate with Dutch sleeuw; cf. sloth

Examples for slow

First, as opposition to gay marriage collapses, American anti-LGBT activists will slow their battle against it.

He tried every means of whiling away the time, but it never had seemed to move so slow.

“The process of getting the approval is too slow and is too cumbersome,” Rogers said.

Mr Clayton was not slow to remark what was passing in my mind.

“Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.

One of the honor guard approached with slow, measured steps and presented the flag to a uniformed captain.

We had to carry the water from the spring in drums, which was slow and hard work.

Progress may be slow—measured in inches and feet, not miles—but we will progress.

Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.

But, changed as he was, he was not slow in recognizing his old enemy, Robert Rushton.