Synonym: dull, lackadaisical, leisurely, lingering, stupid, fast. Similar words: slowdown, slow down, slot, slope, dislodge, disloyal, as long as, dislocate. Meaning: [sləʊ] v. 1. lose velocity; move more slowly 2. become slow or slower 3. cause to proceed more slowly. adj. 1. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time 2. at a slow tempo 3. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity 4. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time 5. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness 6. (of business) not active or brisk. adv. 1. without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') 2. of timepieces.
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121 Put your watch forward; you're five minutes slow.
122 There is a slow drift into crisis.
123 The station clock was ten minutes slow.
124 The distribution of passports has been a slow process.
125 The procession moved at a slow and stately speed.
126 They showed the goal in slow motion.
127 She spoke in a slow and deliberate way.
128 Business may have been a little slow at first[sentencedict.com], but now we're cooking with gas!
129 The idea of glasses being a fashion item has been slow to catch on.
130 We didn't like the restaurant much - the food was indifferent and the service rather slow.
131 Ageing is accompanied by a slow degeneration of his mental faculties.
132 Aircraft production continued to plod along at an agonizingly slow pace.
133 The slow, steady roll of the ship made us feel sick.
134 The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.
135 Fill a saucepan with water and bring to a slow boil.
136 As millions will have seen, by courtesy of the slow motion re-runs, the referee made a mistake.
137 The lorry was travelling at 20mph in the slow lane.
138 I'm sorry I'm so slow today, I didn't get much sleep last night.
139 After the flood there was a slow return to normality.
140 At the end of a workout spend time cooling down with some slow stretches.
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141 Consumers in Europe are slow to pick up trends in the use of information technology.
142 As I sit in a shadowy corner, I observe a slow and gradual elongation of his mouth.
143 They walk very slow. In the comparative both slower and more slowly are used:Can you speak slower/more slowly?
144 He moves with the slow confident gait of a successful man.
145 After a slow beginning, the play fairly zips along in the second act.
146 He got hit on the head and he's been a bit slow since.
147 Our progress has been fairly slow so far, but it's early days.
148 There was a slow trickle of people through the barriers.
149 There is considerable impatience with the slow pace of political change.
150 Both drugs slow the progression of HIV, but neither cures the disease.