Synonyms of the word

slow

• adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
• adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
• adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
• adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
• adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
• adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
• adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
• v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
• v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
• n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
• n. (music) A slow song.
• adv. Slowly.

adagio

• n. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played rather slowly, leisurely and gracefully.
• n. (music) A passage having this mark.
• n. (dance) A male-female duet or mixed trio ballet displaying demanding balance, spins and/or lifts.
• adv. (music) Played rather slowly.
• adj. (music) Describing a passage having this mark.

andante

• n. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a moderately slow tempo; faster than…
• n. (music) A passage having this mark.
• adv. (music) Played at a moderately slow tempo.
• adj. (music) Describing a passage having this mark.

behind

• prep. At the back of; positioned with something else in front of.
• prep. To the back of.
• prep. After, time- or motion-wise.
• prep. responsible for.
• prep. In support of.
• prep. Left a distance by, in progress or improvement; inferior to.
• adv. At the back part; in the rear.
• adv. Toward the back part or rear; backward.
• adv. Overdue, in arrears.
• adv. Slow; of a watch or clock.
• adv. existing afterwards.
• adv. Backward in time or order of succession; past.
• adv. Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
• adv. (archaic) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining.
• n. the rear, back-end.
• n. butt, the buttocks, bottom.
• n. (Australian rules football) A one-point score.
• n. (baseball, slang, 1800s) The catcher.
• n. In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick…

boring

• n. A pit or hole which has been bored.
• n. Fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
• v. present participle of bore.
• adj. Causing boredom; unable to engage or hold one's interest.

bumper-to-bumper

• adj. Very crowded and slow-moving, particularly with regard to motor vehicle traffic.

deadening

• v. present participle of deaden.
• n. A forest clearing created by girdling the trees.

decelerate

• v. to reduce the velocity of something.
• v. to reduce the rate of advancement of something, such as a disease.
• v. (intransitive) to go slower.

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

delayed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of delay.

dense

• adj. Having relatively high density.
• adj. Compact; crowded together.
• adj. Thick; difficult to penetrate.
• adj. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
• adj. Obscure, or difficult to understand.
• adj. (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia…
• adj. (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

dilatory

• adj. Intentionally delaying (someone or something), intended to cause delay, gain time, or defer decision.
• adj. Slow or tardy.

dim

• adj. Not bright or colorful.
• adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
• adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
• n. (archaic) Dimness.
• v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker.
• v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
• v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

diminish

• v. (transitive) To make smaller.
• v. (intransitive) To become smaller.
• v. To lessen the authority or dignity of; to put down; to degrade; to abase; to weaken; to nerf (in gaming).
• v. (intransitive) To taper.
• v. (intransitive) To disappear gradually.
• v. To take away; to subtract.

dragging

• v. present participle of drag.
• n. An instance of something being dragged.

drawn-out

• adj. Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

dumb

• adj. (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
• adj. (dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, especially of a person) extremely stupid.
• adj. (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
• adj. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.
• v. (dated) To silence.
• v. (transitive) To make stupid.
• v. (transitive) To represent as stupid.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.

easy

• adj. (now rare except in certain expressions) Comfortable; at ease.
• adj. Requiring little skill or effort.
• adj. Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
• adj. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
• adj. (informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
• adj. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
• adj. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
• adv. In a relaxed or casual manner.
• adv. In a manner without strictness or harshness.
• adv. Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
• adv. Not difficult, not hard.
• n. Something that is easy.
• v. (rowing) Synonym of easy-oar.

fall

• n. The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
• n. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US, obsolete elsewhere) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the…
• n. A loss of greatness or status.
• n. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.
• n. A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover…
• n. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
• n. The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
• n. See falls.
• n. An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To move downwards.
• v. (transitive) To be moved downwards.
• v. (intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.
• v. (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To bring forth.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
• v. (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or…
• v. (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
• v. (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the…
• v. (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
• v. (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
• v. (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

gradual

• adj. Proceeding by steps or small degrees; advancing step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state…
• n. (Roman Catholic Church) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the…
• n. (Roman Catholic Church) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.

ho-hum

• adj. (dated, US, Canada) Boring; not interesting or novel.
• interj. (dated, US, Canada) Used to express boredom, disinterest or lack of novelty.

inactive

• adj. Not active, temporarily or permanently.
• adj. Not functioning or operating; broken down.
• adj. Retired from duty or service.
• adj. (chemistry) Relatively inert.
• adj. (physics) Showing no optical activity in polarized light.

irksome

• adj. Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition;…

laggard

• adj. Lagging behind; taking more time than the others in a group.
• adj. (animal husbandry) Not growing as quickly as the rest of the flock or herd.
• n. One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.

larghetto

• adj. (music) Slower than adagio but not as slow as largo; nearly andantino.
• n. The larghetto tempo.
• n. A composition or movement to be played larghetto.

larghissimo

• adj. As slowly as possible.
• n. The slowest tempo.

largo

• n. (music) a very slow tempo.
• n. (music) a musical piece or movement in such a tempo.
• adj. (music) strong and stately.

lazy

• adj. Unwilling to do work or make an effort; disinclined to exertion.
• adj. Causing idleness; relaxed or leisurely.
• adj. Sluggish; slow-moving.
• adj. Lax.
• adj. (of a cattle brand) Turned so that (the letter) is horizontal instead of vertical.
• adj. (computing theory) Employing lazy evaluation; not calculating results until they are immediately required.
• adj. (Britain, obsolete or dialect) Wicked; vicious.
• v. (informal) To laze, act in a lazy manner.
• n. A lazy person.
• n. (obsolete) Sloth (animal).

lento

• adj. (music) Very slow.
• adv. (music) Very slowly.
• n. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played very slowly.

lessen

• v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• v. (intransitive) To become less.

long-playing

• adj. Referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had, an LP, generally…

moderato

• n. (music) A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played at a moderate tempo.
• n. (music) A passage having this mark.
• adv. (music) played in this style.
• adj. (music) describing a passage having this mark.

obtuse

• adj. (now chiefly botany, zoology) Blunt; not sharp.
• adj. Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
• adj. Indirect or circuitous.
• adj. Of sound: deadened or muffled.
• adj. (geometry) Of an angle: greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees.
• adj. (geometry) Of a triangle: with one obtuse angle.

pokey

• adj. (of a room, house) of small volume, cramped.
• adj. (slang) slow.
• adj. (slang, of a car) fast.
• n. (slang, with "the") prison.

poky

• n. A gambling device based on the card game poker.
• adj. Slow.
• adj. (of a room or other enclosed space) Small and cramped.
• n. (slang) Jail.

retard

• n. Retardation; delay.
• n. (slang, offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.
• n. (slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.
• v. (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in…
• v. (transitive) To put off; to postpone.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
• v. (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.

slack

• n. (uncountable) Small coal; coal dust.
• n. (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell.
• n. (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
• n. (countable) A tidal marsh or shallow, that periodically fills and drains.
• adj. Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended.
• adj. Weak; not holding fast.
• adj. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
• adj. Not violent, rapid, or pressing.
• adj. (slang, West Indies) vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
• adv. Slackly.
• v. To slacken.
• v. (obsolete) To mitigate; to reduce the strength of.
• v. (followed by “off”) to procrastinate; to be lazy.
• v. (followed by “off”) to refuse to exert effort.
• v. To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.

slacken

• v. (intransitive) To gradually decrease in intensity or tautness; to become slack.
• v. (transitive) To make slack, less taut, or less intense.
• v. To deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake.

slow

• adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding…
• adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
• adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
• adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
• adj. (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
• adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
• adj. (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
• v. (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
• v. (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
• n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
• n. (music) A slow song.
• adv. Slowly.

slow-moving

• adj. travelling at a slow speed.

slowly

• adv. (manner) At a slow pace.

sluggish

• adj. Habitually idle and lazy; slothful; dull; inactive.
• adj. Slow; having little motion.
• adj. Having no power to move oneself or itself; inert.
• adj. Characteristic of a sluggard; dull; stupid; tame; simple.
• adj. Exhibiting economic decline, inactivity, slow or subnormal growth.

stupid

• adj. Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
• adj. To the point of stupor.
• adj. (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
• adj. (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• adj. (slang) damn, annoying, darn.
• adv. (slang, dated) Extremely.
• n. A stupid person; a fool.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) The state or condition of being stupid.

sulky

• adj. (often derogatory) silent and withdrawn after being upset.
• n. A low two-wheeled cart, used in harness racing.
• n. Any carriage seating only the driver.

tardily

• adv. in a tardy fashion; belatedly; late.
• adv. slowly.

tedious

• adj. Boring, monotonous, time consuming, wearisome.

tiresome

• adj. Causing fatigue or boredom; wearisome.

unhurried

• adj. Not hurried; not rushed.

uninteresting

• adj. Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

wearisome

• adj. Tiresome, tedious or causing fatigue.