Entry Word: slow

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed <because of the holiday, traffic to the beach was particularly slow> <slow readers>

Synonyms crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky (or pokey), sluggish, tardy, unhurried

Related Words deliberate, measured; inactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounging; lingering, loitering, tarrying; ambling, inching, plodding, shuffling, strolling; decelerating, slowing; filibustering, procrastinating, stalling

Near Antonyms expeditious, prompt, ready; accelerated, hastened, quickened; hurried, rushed

Antonyms barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping

2 not having or showing an ability to absorb ideas readily <the slower students worked together in a separate group> — see stupid 1