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say it: sloh
slow is an adjective, verb and adverb meaning "not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time". It is pronounced /ˈsloʊ/ — sloh. It carries 11 recorded senses.
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”
music
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”
“dumb officials make some really dumb decisions”
“he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse”
“worked with the slow students”
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”
“tedious days on the train”
“the tiresome chirping of a cricket”
“other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome”
cause to proceed more slowly
“The illness slowed him down”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for slow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.