slow

About 39.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective 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.

   a slow train; a slow computer

2. adjective Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
3. adjective Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
4. adjective Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
5. adjective Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.

   That clock is slow.

6. adjective Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
7. adjective Not busy; lacking activity.

   It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier.

8. verb To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

   slow the process

Similar words

retard laggard larghissimo slowly slack slow-moving tardily slow up slow down dawdling

Often followed by

and to down in the process growth motion progress

Word family

slowed slower slowest slowing slowish slowness slownesses slows