eng: slow - UWN/MENTA

eng: slow

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

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