slow
/sloʊ/
ढिलो
verb
1. decelerate, slow down, slow up, retard
lose velocity
move more slowly
"The car decelerated"
2. slow down, slow up, slack, slacken
become slow or slower
"Production slowed"
3. slow down, slow up
cause to proceed more slowly
"The illness slowed him down"
adjective
1. slow
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"
2. slow
at a slow tempo
"the band played a slow waltz"
3. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse
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"
4. slow
(used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
"the clock is slow"
5. boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome
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"
6. dull, sluggish
(of business) not active or brisk
"business is dull (or slow)"
"a sluggish market"
adverb
1. slowly, easy, tardily
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"
2. behind
of timepieces
"the clock is almost an hour slow"
"my watch is running behind"
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