slow

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Not moving or able to move quickly; proceeding at a low speed: a slow train; slow walkers.
2. adj. Marked by a retarded tempo: a slow waltz.
3. adj. Taking or requiring a long time: the slow job of making bread.
4. adj. Taking more time than is usual: a slow worker; slow progress in the peace negotiations.
5. adj. Allowing movement or action only at a low speed: a slow track; a slow infield.
6. adj. Registering a time or rate behind or below the correct one: a slow clock.
7. adj. Lacking in promptness or willingness; not precipitate: They were slow to accept our invitation.
8. adj. Characterized by a low volume of sales or transactions: Business was slow today.
9. adj. Lacking liveliness or interest; boring: a slow party.
10. adj. Not having or exhibiting intellectual or mental quickness: a slow learner.
11. adj. Only moderately warm; low: a slow oven.
12. adv. So as to fall behind the correct time or rate: The watch runs slow.
13. adv. At a low speed: Go slow!
14. v. To make slow or slower.
15. v. To delay; retard.
16. v. To become slow or slower.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance; not quick in motion; not rapid: as, a slow train; a slow messenger.
2. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time; gradual: as, a slow change; the slow growth of arts.
3. Not ready; not prompt or quick; used absolutely, not quick to comprehend; dull-witted.
4. Tardy; dilatory; sluggish; slothful.
5. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation.
6. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time: as, the clock or watch is slow.
7. Dull; lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness: used of persons or things: as, the entertainment was very slow.
8. Synonyms Delaying, lingering, deliberate.
9. 3 and
10. Heavy, inert, lumpish.
11. 1–4. Slow, Tardy, Dilatory. Slow and tardy represent either a fact in external events or an element of character; dilatory only the latter. Dilatory expresses that disposition or habit by which one is once or generally slow to go about what ought to be done. See idle.
12. n. A sluggard.
13. Slowly.
14. To become slow; slacken in speed.
15. To make slow; delay; retard.
16. To slacken in speed: as, to slow a locomotive or a steamer: usually with up or down.
17. n. A Middle English spelling of slough.
18. n. In zoöl, a sluggish or slow-paced skink, as the slow-worm or blindworm, Anguis fragilis; also, a newt or eft of like character.
19. n. A Middle English preterit of slay.

Wiktionary

1. adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
2. adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
3. adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
4. adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
5. adj. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
6. adj. computing That takes a long time to transfer data.
7. adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
8. adj. of a period of time Not busy; lacking activity.
9. v. transitive To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
10. v. transitive To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
11. v. intransitive To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
12. n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
13. n. music A slow song.
14. adv. Slowly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. Slew.
2. adj. Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate.
3. adj. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
4. adj. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish.
5. adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
6. adj. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
7. adj. Not advancing or improving rapidly.
8. adj. colloq. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.
9. adv. Slowly.
10. v. To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay.
11. v. To go slower; -- often with up.
12. n. obsolete A moth.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. (of business) not active or brisk
2. adj. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
3. adv. without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
4. adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
5. adj. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
6. adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
7. v. cause to proceed more slowly
8. v. lose velocity; move more slowly
9. adv. of timepieces
10. adj. at a slow tempo
11. v. become slow or slower