slow

Significado (Inglés)

Adj

1. 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.
2. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
3. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
4. Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
5. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
6. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
7. Not busy; lacking activity.

Verb

1. To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
2. To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
3. To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

Noun

1. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
2. A slow song.

Adv

Slowly.

Conceptos

lento

despacio

lentamente

pesado

tardo

espacioso

sentado

calmoso

tonto

demorar

atrasado

perezoso

desaplicado

aburrido

atrasar

moroso

paulatino

pausado

retardar

con cuidado

con despacio

sin apuro

cuidadosamente

despaciosamente

retrasado

corto

estúpido

torpe

gris

ralentizarse

lentificarse

enlentecer

frenar

ralentizar

lentificar

ir

retrasar

lerdo

disminuir aminorar la marcha

tardío

no urgente

bajo

lenta

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/sləʊ/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).