slow

Synonyms

arid, boring, colorless, drab, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying;

Antonyms

absorbing, engaging, engrossing, gripping, interesting, intriguing, involving, riveting;

Near Antonyms

amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, eye-opening, fabulous, marvelous (or marvellous), sensational, spectacular, surprising, wonderful, wondrous;

animating, breathtaking, electrifying, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, galvanizing, hair-raising, inspiring, invigorating, rip-roaring, rousing, stimulating, stirring, thrilling;

amusing, diverting, entertaining;

moving, poignant, touching;

alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating;

mesmerizing, spellbinding;

suspenseful;

arresting, provocative, tantalizing;

Related Words

aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless;

blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular;

annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating;

longsome;

palling;

draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing;

debilitating, enfeebling;

demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting;

common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid;

cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey);

Synonyms

laggardly, leisurely, pokily, slowly, sluggishly, tardily;

Antonyms

apace, briskly, fast, fleetly, full tilt, hastily, quick, quickly, rapidly, snappily, speedily, swift, swiftly;

Near Antonyms

immediately, posthaste, presto, promptly, pronto, readily, soon;

impetuously, impulsively, rashly, recklessly;

abruptly, suddenly;

Related Words

carefully, cautiously, deliberately, purposefully;

heavily, ploddingly;

Synonyms

brake, decelerate, retard, slacken;

Antonyms

accelerate, hasten, hurry, quicken, rush, speed (up), step up;

Near Antonyms

drive, encourage, goad, propel, push, spur, stir, urge;

advance, aid, dispatch, ease, expedite, facilitate, forward, further, help;

Related Words

halt, stop;

encumber, hamper, handicap, hinder, hobble, hold back, hold up, impede, inhibit, obstruct, set back, tie up;

arrest, check, constrain, curb, rein, restrain;

baffle, foil, frustrate, thwart;