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slow
Synonyms and Antonyms of slow
- because of the holiday, traffic to the beach was particularly slow
- slow readers
- we love our bulldog though he's a little slower than our German shepherd
airheaded, birdbrained, bonehead, boneheaded, brain-dead, brainless, bubbleheaded, chuckleheaded, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, mindless, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, senseless, simple, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, stupid, thick, thick-witted, thickheaded, unintelligent, unsmart, vacuous, weak-minded, witless
cretinous, feebleminded, simpleminded
boobish, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic
ignorant, illiterate, lowbrow, uneducated, uninformed, unintellectual, untaught, unthinking
absurd, asinine, balmy, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, insane, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, silly, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), zany
acute, astute, discerning, insightful, keen, knowing, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, savvy, wise
cerebral, erudite, highbrow, intellectual, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, thinking, well-read
educated, informed, schooled, skilled, trained
crafty, cunning, foxy, shrewd, wily
- a slow day on Wall Street
- the first half of the movie is slow, but then it gets exciting
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
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
draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing
demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting
common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid
cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey)
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
alluring, attracting, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating
slow
Synonyms and Antonyms of slow
- you need to go slow with this experiment, or you'll make mistakes
slow
Synonyms and Antonyms of slow
- if you don't slow your delivery down a bit, your speech will be over too soon
Synonym Discussion of slow
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- bad weather delayed our arrival
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- language barriers retarded their progress
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- medication slowed the patient's heart rate
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- on hot days runners slacken their pace
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- unexpected business had detained her
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