Found 4 items, similar to Slow.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: slow
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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: slow
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: slow
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]
slow
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]
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” [syn:
slowly,
easy,
tardily]
[ant:
quickly]
2: of timepieces;
“the clock is almost an hour slow”;
“my watch
is running behind” [syn:
behind]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Slow
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.
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Slow
\Slow\, v. i.
To go slower; -- often with up; as, the train slowed up
before crossing the bridge.
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Slow
\Slow\, n.
A moth. [Obs.] --Rom. of R.
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Slow
\Slow\ (sl[=o]), obs. imp. of
Slee, to slay.
Slew. --Chaucer.
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Slow
\Slow\ (sl[=o]), a. [Compar.
Slower (sl[=o]"[~e]r);
superl.
Slowest.] [OE. slow, slaw, AS. sl[=a]w; akin to OS.
sl[=e]u blunt, dull, D. sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. sl[=e]o
blunt, dull, Icel. sl[=o]r, sl[ae]r, Dan. sl["o]v, 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.
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2. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
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These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced
Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
--Milton.
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3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as,
slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
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Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow
To guard their shore from an expected foe. --Dryden.
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4. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation;
tardy; inactive.
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He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
--Prov. xiv.
29.
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5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true
time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
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6. Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of
arts and sciences.
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7. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome;
dull. [Colloq.] --Dickens. Thackeray.
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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.
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Slow coach, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.]
Slow lemur, or
Slow loris (Zo["o]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.
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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.
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Slow
\Slow\, adv.
Slowly.
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Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
In time of sorrow. --Shak.
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