slow
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.
Adjective 4 meanings
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”
Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
“That clock is slow.”
Verb 3 meanings
To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
“slow the process”
To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
“slow the traffic”
To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
Noun 2 meanings
Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
A slow song.
Adverb 1 meaning
Slowly.
“That clock is running slow.”
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”).
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SLOW at a glance
SLOW has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (S 1 + L 1 + O 1 + W 4) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,462 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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