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(verb) become slow or slower; "Production slowed" |
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Synonyms: slack, slacken, slow down, slow up |
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Related Words: weaken |
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(verb) cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down" |
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Synonyms: slow down, slow up |
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Related Words: bog, bog down, clog, decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: fast |
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(adjective) (music) at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz" |
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Antonyms: fast |
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(adjective) (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow" |
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Antonyms: fast |
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(satellite adjective) (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" |
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Synonyms: dull, sluggish |
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(adverb) without speed; "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly' as in "please go slow; I want to see the sights") |
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Synonyms: easy, slowly, tardily |
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(adverb) of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind" |
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Synonyms: behind |
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(verb) lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" |
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Synonyms: decelerate, retard, slow down, slow up |
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Related Words: delay, detain, hold up, slow, slow down, slow up |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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