slow

Meaning

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.

sluggish

not fast

be slow

take one’s time

move sluggishly

weak-headed

not quick

unwieldy

dull person

lazy fellow

lazy people

lazy person

move slowly

slacken speed

take a long time

stop

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be sluggish

waste time

walking slowly

low tone

be in a slump

dull-brained

jogging

be dilatory

be negligent

be languid

be lethargic

be lackadaisical

be leisurely

be tardy

not smooth

developmentally disabled

of a slow pace

render slow

slow-sailing

snail-like

be dawdling

reduce speed

dull people

carefully

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sləʊ/

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”).