moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed
- the application process for an overseas adoption has been moving at a snaillike pace
crawling, creeping, dallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, languid, leisurely, poking, poky (or pokey), slow, sluggish, snail-paced, tardy, unhurried
deliberate, measured
inactive, inert, lethargic, loafing, lounging
lingering, loitering, tarrying
ambling, heavy-footed, inching, plodding, shuffling, slow-footed
strolling
decelerating, slowing
filibustering, procrastinating, stalling
barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk, careering, dizzy, fast, fleet, flying, hasty, hurrying, lightning, meteoric, quick, racing, rapid, rocketing, running, rushing, scooting, scudding, scurrying, snappy, speeding, speedy, swift, warp-speed, whirling, whirlwind, whisking, zipping
