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. (derogatory, informal) 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. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
2. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
3. (intransitive) 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

tardo

pesado

demorar

sentado

espacioso

calmoso

atrasado

tonto

torpe

atrasar

con cuidado

desaplicado

despaciosamente

enlentecer

lenta

lerdo

moroso

paulatino

ralentizar

retardar

tardío

pausado

con despacio

sin apuro

ralentizarse

lentificarse

lentificar

disminuir aminorar la marcha

aburrido

no urgente

bajo

corto

cuidadosamente

estúpido

frenar

gris

ir

perezoso

retrasado

retrasar

Sinónimos

sluggish

dull

tardy

slowly

leisurely

stupid

lazy

slow down

inactive

late

unhurried

delay

slow up

obtuse

slack

dumb

quiet

decelerate

lethargic

dim

dilatory

deliberate

careful

lingering

tedious

gradual

retard

gentle

weak

easy

inert

slothful

indolent

awkward

clumsy

behind

thick

calm

boring

tardily

dawdle

laggard

soft

lagging

gently

slow-witted

be slow

dense

retarded

slacken

Traducciones

lent

langsam

lento

langzaam

lento

ralentir

traag

αργός

yavaş

rallentare

devagar

lent

tardus

träge

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/sləʊ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: slow

Heredado de inglés antiguo: slāw

Cognado con escocés: slaw

Cognado con frisón occidental: sleau

Cognado con neerlandés: sleeuw

Cognado con bajo alemán: slee

Cognado con alemán: schlehe

Cognado con danés: sløv

Cognado con sueco: slö

Cognado con islandés: sljór

In summary

From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, 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”).

Oraciones

Wildlife on the site includes slow worms .

This version of Polar Boy can only slow molecular movement .

Esta versión de Polar Boy solo puede ralentizar el movimiento molecular.

Consumers and merchants were slow to accept it , and there was minimal marketing .

Los consumidores y los comerciantes tardaron en aceptarlo, y hubo un marketing mínimo.