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slowadjective moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speedbecause of the holiday, traffic to the beach was particularly slow slow readers crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky(or pokey), sluggish, snaillike, snail-paced, tardy, unhurried deliberate, measuredinactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounginglingering, loitering, tarryingambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footedstrollingdecelerating, slowingfilibustering, procrastinating, stalling barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping expeditious, prompt, readyaccelerated, hastened, quickenedhurried, rushed not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readilywe love our bulldog though he's a little slower than our German shepherd airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey(also dopy), dorky(slang), dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless cretinous, feebleminded, simplemindedboobish, foolish, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronicignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinkingabsurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky(also kookie), loony(also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, silly, tomfool, unwise, wacky(also whacky), zanyfallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable apt, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, fast, hyperintelligent, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, supersmart, ultrasmart ingenious, resourcefulacute, astute, discerning, insightful, keen, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, savvy, wisecerebral, erudite, highbrow, intellectual, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, thinking, well-readeducated, informed, schooled, skilled, trainedcrafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wilyjudicious, prudent, sane, sensible, soundlogical, rational, reasonable, valid lacking in gaiety, movement, or animationa slow day on Wall Street comatose, dead, sleepy lethargic, sluggish, torpiddormant, fallow, free, idle, inactive, inert, inoperative, latent, off, vacant alive, animated, astir, bustling, busy, buzzing, flourishing, humming, lively, thriving, vibrant abounding, overflowing, swarming, teeming, thronging causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interestthe first half of the movie is slow, but then it gets exciting arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritlessblank, earthbound, gray(also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacularannoying, bothersome, irksome, irritatinglongsomepallingdraining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearingdebilitating, enfeeblingdemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiritingcommon, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapidcumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky(or pokey) absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous(or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrousanimating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrillingamusing, diverting, entertainingmoving, poignant, touchingalluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinatingmesmerizing, spellbindingsuspensefularresting, provocative, tantalizing at a pace that is less than usual, desirable, or expectedyou need to go slow with this experiment, or you'll make mistakes laggardly, leisurely, pokily, slowly, sluggishly, tardily carefully, cautiously, deliberately, purposefullyheavily, ploddingly apace, briskly, fast, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, meteorically, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappily, speedily, swift, swiftly immediately, posthaste, presto, promptly, pronto, readily, soonimpetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklesslyabruptly, suddenly to cause to move or proceed at a less rapid paceif you don't slow your delivery down a bit, your speech will be over too soon brake, decelerate, retard, slacken halt, stopencumber, hamper, handicap, hinder, hobble, hold back, hold up, impede, inhibit, obstruct, set back, tie upbottleneckarrest, check, constrain, curb, rein, restrainbaffle, foil, frustrate, sabotage, thwart accelerate, hasten, hurry, quicken, rush, speed (up), step up drive, encourage, goad, propel, push, spur, stir, urgeadvance, aid, dispatch, ease, expedite, facilitate, forward, further, help v.delay, retard, slow, slacken, detain mean to cause to be late or behind in movement or progress.delay implies a holding back, usually by interference, from completion or arrival.bad weather delayed our arrival retard suggests reduction of speed without actual stopping.language barriers retarded their progress slow and slacken also imply a reduction of speed, slow often suggesting deliberate intentionmedication slowed the patient's heart rate , slacken an easing up or relaxing of power or effort.on hot days runners slacken their pace detain implies a holding back beyond a reasonable or appointed time.unexpected business had detained her before the 12th century |