Another word for slow
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Adjective
Proceeding at a rate less than usual or desired
- Hanging back; loitering.
- Slow or delayed in action.
- Slow or late in doing things; falling behind
- Moving slowly
- Proceeding at a tediously slow pace:
- Alternative form of slowfooted.
- Moving or progressing slowly; sluggish:
- Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late.
- Slow in moving, acting, etc.
- Small and cramped:
- Frumpish; shabby:
- Not lively; slow, dull, dilatory, etc.
Idioms:See also:Characterized by reduced economic activity
- Afflicted; sick:
- Not permitted to advance further in the play because forward progress has stopped, especially by being tackled. Used of a ball carrier.
- Sophisticated, stylish, etc.; cool; hip
- Not vivid; not brilliant; dim
- Not clear or resonant:
- Not bright, vivid, or shiny:
- Gone away; on the way
- Away from work, etc.; absent
- (Informal) Not quite normal in thinking, behavior, etc.; mildly eccentric
- (Linguistics) Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax.
- Not tense or taut; loose:
- Loose; relaxed; not tight, taut, or firm
- Not active; slow or slow-moving; dull
- Slow to perform or respond to stimulation.
- Displaying little movement or activity; slow; inactive:
- Easily molded, cut, or worked:
- Not stern; lenient:
- Voiced and weakly articulated:
See also:Having only a limited ability to learn and understand
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Behind others in progress or development:
- Done or arranged in a manner or order that is opposite to previous occurrence or normal use.
- Not shiny or glossy; lusterless
- Arousing little interest; lacking liveliness; boring:
- Not clear or resonant:
- Not pretentious, guileful, or deceitful; humble or sincere:
- Having little or no ornamentation; not embellished or adorned:
- Lowly in condition or rank:
- Lacking in subtlety or sophistication; artless or naive:
- Lacking subtlety or sophistication
- Stupid or silly; foolish.
- Slow to comprehend.
- Having a mind that works slowly and ineffectively; not bright or alert; dull
- Alternative form of slow-witted.
- Not demanding or difficult; easy:
- Informal and entertaining without confronting difficult issues or hard facts:
- Not sharply drawn or delineated:
- Exhibiting a marked lack of intelligent consideration and forethought:
- Deficient in intelligence. No longer in scientific use.
- Having a low intelligence; dim-witted
- Alternative spelling of half-witted.
- Having or characteristic of mental retardation
- Slowed or delayed in development or progress, esp. because of mental retardation
- (Slang) Inept, ineffectual, pathetic, etc.
- Foolish; silly.
- Showing weakness of resolve or thought
- Of less than normal intellect. Not in scientific use.
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Adverb
So as to fall behind schedule
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Verb
To cause to be later or slower than expected or desired.
- To keep from proceeding; delay or retard:
- (Archaic) To retain or withhold (payment or property, for example).
- Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
- (Billiards) To strike the cue ball so that it rebounds from the far rail to stop as close as possible to the near rail or the string line: done to decide the order of play
- (Games) To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.
- To move or develop more slowly than expected, desired, etc.; be retarded in motion, development, etc.
- To hinder, delay, or slow the advance or progress of
- To be delayed.
- To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede.
- To cause (a motor or motor vehicle) accidentally to stop running.
- (Intransitive) To employ delaying tactics
- To employ delaying tactics against:
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Another word for slow
Modifier
Slow in motion
Slow in starting
Slow in producing an effect
Antonyms:Dull or stupid
Verb
To become slower
- (Idiomatic, colloquial) To slow, slow down, decelerate.
- (Idiomatic) Decelerate.
- (Sports) In golf, to hit (a putt) so that it stops a short way from the hole and can then be tapped in.
- To fall, move, or stay behind; loiter; linger
- (Games) To determine the order of play by hitting or shooting a ball toward a mark, as in marbles or billiards, with the player whose ball stops closest to the mark going first.
- To proceed slowly or with many stops:
- To stand idly about; linger without any purpose.
- To act slowly or with leisure; take one's time:
- To become quiet
- To become quiet:
- In a quiet manner
- To rest from effort, worry, or work, as by lying down, engaging in recreation, etc.
- To release from intense concentration, hard work, worry, etc.; give rest to
- To take one's ease; rest.
- To postpone or delay needlessly.
- To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness.
- To put off doing (something unpleasant or burdensome) until a future time; esp., to postpone (such actions) habitually
- (Nautical) To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind.
- (Figuratively) To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny.
- (Aeron.) To put or go into a stall
- To employ delaying tactics against
- (Intransitive) To employ delaying tactics
- (Intransitive, of something intense) to lessen
Antonyms:To cause to become slower
- To stop for a while; linger
- To act or move slowly; put off an action or a decision.
- To make late; slow up; detain
- (Gram.) To put at or near the end of the sentence
- To cause or arrange for (an event) to take place at a time later than the time at which it was originally supposed to happen.
- To delay or put off an event, appointment etc.
- To slow down the rate of advancement of:
- To decrease the velocity of.
- To reduce the speed (of); slow down
- To cause to be less extreme, intense, or violent.
- To become moderate
- To cause to become moderate; make less extreme, violent, etc.; restrain
- To bring to a specified undesirable state, as of weakness or helplessness:
- To lower the price of:
- To bring into a certain order; systematize
- To adjust (a clock, etc.) so as to make operate accurately
- To put or maintain in order:
- To control, direct, or govern according to a rule, principle, or system; specif., to impose a body of regulations on a particular industry, type of business, etc.
- To be delayed.
- To hinder, delay, or slow the advance or progress of
- To cause to move or proceed slowly; delay or impede.
- To keep from proceeding; delay or retard:
- Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
- (Archaic) To retain or withhold (payment or property, for example).
- To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen:
- To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate:
- To make suitable, desirable, or free from excess by mingling with something else; reduce in intensity, esp. by the admixture of some other quality; moderate; assuage; mollify
- To be or become qualified, as by meeting requirements
- To render deserving of a descriptor by having or enumerating certain necessary characteristics:
- To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task:
- To become or cause to become less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
- To obstruct or delay the progress of:
- To keep back; restrain; get in the way of; prevent; stop
- To make difficult for; thwart; impede; frustrate
- To bar or hinder the progress of; obstruct or delay
- To slow down or stop with or as with a brake
- To operate or apply a brake.
- To reduce the speed of with or as if with a brake.
- To cut short; reduce; abridge
- To cut short or reduce:
- To lead (a dog being walked) to the curb or some other place where it may pass its waste matter
- To prevent (a person or group) from doing something or acting in a certain way.
- To check, restrain, or control (an impulse or activity, for example); rein in.
- To reduce the size of (a sail) by tucking in a part and tying it to or rolling it around a yard.
- To lower (a spar or mast) or reduce the projection of (a bowsprit)
- (Intransitive with on) To reduce consumption.
- (Intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
- (Intransitive with on) To reduce spending.
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