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Exact Match:

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"

at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz"

(used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow"

become slow or slower; "Production slowed"

cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down"

Synonyms:

• Boeotian,
• Micawberish,
• after time,
• almost unheard-of,
• ambling,
• apathetic,
• arid,
• arrest,
• arrested,
• averse,
• back,
• backpedal,
• backward,
• backwater,
• balking,
• balky,
• barren,
• behind,
• behind the times,
• behind time,
• behindhand,
• belated,
• belatedly,
• benumbed,
• blah,
• blank,
• blase,
• blocked,
• blockish,
• bloodless,
• blunt,
• blunt-witted,
• bone-lazy,
• bored,
• boring,
• bovine,
• brake,
• cadging,
• carefully,
• cautious,
• cautiously,
• characterless,
• check,
• circumspect,
• circumspectly,
• claudicant,
• clip the wings,
• cloddish,
• cold,
• colorless,
• conservative,
• crawling,
• crawlingly,
• creeping,
• creeping like snail,
• creepingly,
• curb,
• dallying,
• dawdling,
• dead,
• dead-and-alive,
• debilitated,
• decelerate,
• deep into,
• delay,
• delayed,
• delayed-action,
• delaying,
• deliberate,
• deliberately,
• dense,
• detain,
• detained,
• dilatorily,
• dilatory,
• dillydallying,
• dim,
• dim-witted,
• disinclined,
• dismal,
• do-nothing,
• doless,
• doltish,
• dopey,
• dormant,
• dragging,
• draggy,
• draw rein,
• drearisome,
• dreary,
• dronish,
• drony,
• droopy,
• drugged,
• dry,
• dryasdust,
• dull,
• dull of mind,
• dull-headed,
• dull-pated,
• dull-witted,
• dumb,
• dunch,
• dusty,
• ease off,
• ease up,
• easily,
• easy,
• easygoing,
• effete,
• elephantine,
• empty,
• enervated,
• ergophobic,
• etiolated,
• exanimate,
• fade,
• faineant,
• faltering,
• falteringly,
• far on,
• fat-witted,
• feebleminded,
• flagging,
• flat,
• foot-dragging,
• gentle,
• gently,
• good-for-nothing,
• gradual,
• gross-headed,
• grudging,
• half-witted,
• halting,
• haltingly,
• hasteless,
• heavy,
• hebetudinous,
• held up,
• hesitant,
• ho-hum,
• hobbled,
• hobbling,
• hold back,
• hold in check,
• hold up,
• hollow,
• humdrum,
• hung up,
• idle,
• idly,
• imbecile,
• impede,
• in a bind,
• in abeyance,
• in low gear,
• in march time,
• in slow motion,
• in slow tempo,
• inactive,
• inane,
• inanimate,
• indifferent,
• indisposed,
• indolent,
• indolently,
• inert,
• inexcitable,
• infrequent,
• insipid,
• jaded,
• jammed,
• jejune,
• keep back,
• lackadaisical,
• laggard,
• lagging,
• languid,
• languidly,
• languorous,
• languorously,
• late,
• latish,
• lax,
• lazy,
• leaden,
• leisurely,
• let down,
• let up,
• lethargic,
• lifeless,
• limited,
• limping,
• limpingly,
• lingering,
• lingeringly,
• listless,
• loath,
• loitering,
• loiteringly,
• lollygagging,
• lose ground,
• lose momentum,
• lose speed,
• low-spirited,
• lumbering,
• lumpish,
• measurable,
• measured,
• moderate,
• moderately,
• monotonous,
• moratory,
• moribund,
• moronic,
• never on time,
• nonaggressive,
• none too soon,
• not with it,
• numb,
• obstruct,
• obstructed,
• obtuse,
• old-fashioned,
• old-fogyish,
• out of date,
• out of it,
• overdue,
• pale,
• pallid,
• parasitic,
• pedestrian,
• perceptible,
• perfunctory,
• phlegmatic,
• plodding,
• pointless,
• pokily,
• poking,
• pokingly,
• poky,
• ponderous,
• pooped,
• procrastinating,
• procrastinative,
• procrastinatory,
• progressive,
• quiet,
• rare,
• reef,
• rein in,
• relax,
• relaxed,
• relaxedly,
• reluctant,
• reluctantly,
• remiss,
• renitent,
• restive,
• retard,
• retarded,
• rusty,
• sated,
• sauntering,
• scarce,
• scrounging,
• seldom met with,
• seldom seen,
• set back,
• shiftless,
• shuffling,
• simple,
• slack,
• slack off,
• slack up,
• slacken,
• sleepy,
• slothful,
• slow as death,
• slow as molasses,
• slow as slow,
• slow down,
• slow to,
• slow up,
• slow-crawling,
• slow-foot,
• slow-going,
• slow-legged,
• slow-moving,
• slow-paced,
• slow-poky,
• slow-running,
• slow-sailing,
• slow-stepped,
• slow-witted,
• slowly,
• sluggish,
• sluggishly,
• snail-paced,
• snaillike,
• solemn,
• somnolent,
• soporific,
• sparse,
• spiritless,
• sponging,
• square,
• staggering,
• stagnant,
• stagnating,
• stay,
• steady,
• sterile,
• stiff,
• stodgy,
• stolid,
• stopped,
• straggling,
• strolling,
• stuffy,
• stultified,
• stupid,
• superficial,
• supine,
• take in sail,
• take it easy,
• tame,
• tardily,
• tardy,
• tarryingly,
• tasteless,
• tedious,
• tentative,
• tentatively,
• thick,
• thick-brained,
• thick-headed,
• thick-pated,
• thick-witted,
• thickskulled,
• throttle down,
• tiresome,
• toddling,
• torpid,
• tortoiselike,
• tottering,
• trudging,
• turtlelike,
• uncommon,
• under easy sail,
• unenterprising,
• unenthusiastic,
• uneventful,
• unfrequent,
• unhasty,
• unhurried,
• unhurriedly,
• unimaginative,
• unintelligent,
• uninteresting,
• unique,
• unlively,
• unproductive,
• unprogressive,
• unpunctual,
• unready,
• unresponsive,
• untimely,
• unusual,
• unwilling,
• unzealous,
• vapid,
• vegetable,
• vegetative,
• waddling,
• wan,
• wearisome,
• weary,
• with agonizing slowness,
• with deliberation,
• wooden,
• work-shy,
• world-weary