slow

Etymology
From, , from , from , possibly from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) 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) Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
 * 3) Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
 * 4) Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
 * 5)  Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
 * 6) Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
 * 7)  Not busy; lacking activity.
 * 1) Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
 * 2)  Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
 * 3) Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
 * 4)  Not busy; lacking activity.
 * 1)  Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
 * 2) Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
 * 3)  Not busy; lacking activity.
 * 1) Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
 * 2)  Not busy; lacking activity.

Synonyms

 * ; ; see also Thesaurus:slow
 * ; see also Thesaurus:gradual
 * ; see also Thesaurus:stupid
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:cautious
 * ,, , , , , ; see also Thesaurus:inactive or Thesaurus:boring
 * ,, , , , , ; see also Thesaurus:inactive or Thesaurus:boring

Antonyms

 * ,, , ; see also Thesaurus:speedy
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:sudden
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:prompt
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:active
 * , ; see also Thesaurus:active

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Afrikaans: stadig
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: OpenB@BackHand-PalmDown OpenB@BackWrist-PalmDown
 * Arabic: بَطِيء
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: লেহেম, লেহেমীয়া
 * Asturian: lentu
 * Avar: хӏинцаб
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: яй
 * Basque: geldi
 * Belarusian: паво́льны
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: hinay
 * Chamicuro: yakameleste
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏍᎦᏃᎵ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 慢
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: tierč
 * Danish:
 * Deccani: ہلو
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Elfdalian: makklin
 * Esperanto: malrapida
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:, pjakutur, pjákutur, seinførur, høsnutur, døllutur, seinpjakutur, putlutur, drúgvur, ótíttur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: lent
 * Georgian: ნელი
 * German:
 * Greek:, βραδύ
 * Ancient: βραδύς
 * Greenlandic: arriitsoq, kigaatsoq, sukkaatsoq
 * Guaraní:
 * Hebrew: איטי
 * Higaonon: mahinay
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: veeno, tyltsä mänomää
 * Irish: mall, righin
 * Old Irish: mall
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 鈍足
 * Kazakh: баяу,, жай
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: لەسەر خۆ,
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Ladin: plan
 * Ladino: avagarozo, lento, yavash
 * Lao: ຊ້າ
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: lēns
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: lues
 * Macedonian: бавен
 * Malay:, ,
 * Manchu: ᠮᠠᠨᡩᠠ
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠤᠳᠠᠭᠠᠨ
 * Navajo: chʼééh
 * Neapolitan: liento
 * Nepali: सुस्त
 * Ngunawal: gunyan
 * Norman: lent
 * Northern Sami: njoahci, hillján, hillji
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: læt
 * Old Javanese: jambat
 * Ossetian: сындӕг
 * Ottoman Turkish: آغر
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: langsom,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Punjabi: ਧੀਮਾ
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: plaun, lamaschi
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mall, slaodach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: спо̏р
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: pomalý
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: pomałki, pomały
 * Southern Altai: акырын, аккырын
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: mabagal
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil: மெதுவான
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དལ་པོ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tuvan: оожум
 * Ukrainian: пові́льний
 * Urdu: سُسْت, دِھیمِا,, کند, کودن
 * Uyghur: ئاستا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: slofio, piajo
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:, ,
 * Welsh:
 * White Hmong: qeeb
 * Yiddish: פּאַמעלעך
 * Zhuang: menh, yaeng


 * American Sign Language: OpenB@BackHand-PalmDown OpenB@BackWrist-PalmDown
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Latvian: lēns
 * Macedonian: бавен
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Ukrainian: пові́льний


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: righin
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Tibetan: གླེན་པ


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: leasc
 * Ngazidja Comorian: mpesi
 * Swahili: ,
 * Tibetan: བྲེལ་བ་མེད་པ


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek:
 * Nepali: ढिलो
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tibetan: ཉོབ་ཏོ
 * Ukrainian: нудни́й


 * Bulgarian:
 * Latvian: lēns

Verb

 * 1)  To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
 * 2)  To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
 * 3)  To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
 * 1)  To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
 * 1)  To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: fer lent
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: შენელება
 * Greek:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: забавува
 * Portuguese: fazer lento, decelerar, reduzir rapidez
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Tibetan: དལ་དུ་གཏོང་བ
 * Ukrainian: упові́льнювати, спові́льнювати


 * Russian:
 * Swahili: ,


 * Bulgarian: забавям се
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Maori: takaware
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Tibetan: དལ་དུ་འགྲོ་བ
 * Ukrainian: спові́льнюватися, упові́льнюватися

Noun

 * 1) Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
 * 2)  A slow song.

Adverb

 * 1) Slowly.

Derived terms

 * low and slow

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) slow waltz