slow
Forms
- Comparative
- slower
- Superlative
- slowest
- Plural
- slows
- present (v1)
- slow
- past (v2)
- slowed
- past participle (v3)
- slowed
- present participle
- slowing
- 3rd person singular
- slows
Definitions
1.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.
- Turkey should always be cooked in a slow oven.
2.Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
- As of the current patch, Luke’s crouching Medium Punch has been nerfed. It will now have a larger hurtbox, in addition to having a slower recovery when the attack misses.
- Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems, surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
3.Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.(informal)
- Hey, don't yell at Homer, just because he's a little slow.
4.Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
- He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
- And even after the emotional cast comes off, we need to be slow about getting deeply involved in a relationship again.
1.To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
2.To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
3.To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
- After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
1.Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1761
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
Etymology
From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”).