Словарь синонимов английского языка - slow

(adj) 1. lagging, laggard, dawdling, sluggish, sluggard(ly), slow-moving, leaden, ponderous, unhurried, plodding, snail-like, tortoise-like, torpid, leaden-footed, creeping, crawling; deliberate, slow-paced, leisurely, gradual, easy, relaxed, lax, lackadaisical, lazy, US lallygagging or lollygagging: They walked at a slow pace back to the house. Philip has become a little slower in his old age. 2. gradual, progressive, moderate, perceptible, almost imperceptible, measurable: The church elders have noted a slow decline in moral standards. 3. unhurried, slow-moving, slow-paced: The slow funeral cortege crept through the streets. 4. behindhand, unpunctual: I missed the train because my watch is five minutes slow. 5. late, tardy, behindhand, dilatory, delayed, unpuncdual: You were so slow in getting here that everyone has gone. 6. slack, inactive, quiet, sluggish, unproductive: Business is always a bit slow after the holidays. 7. dense, dull, slow-witted, dull-witted, obtuse, backward, bovine, dim, dim-witted, stupid, unresponsive, blockish, cloddish, unintelligent, doltish, simple, stolid, unimaginadive, Boeotian, Colloq slow on the uptake, thick, dumb: I'm afraid I'm a bit slow when it comes to particle physics. 8. conservative, unprogressive, old-fashioned, out of date, backward, old-fogyish or old-fogeyish, behind the times, Colloq square, not with it, past it, US out of it: The council has been rather slow in realizing the needs of the community. 9. boring, dull, tiresome, ennuyant, tedious, dead, sleepy, somnolent, torpid, soporific, wearisome, dry-as-dust, uninteresting, monotonous, tame, uneventful, humdrum, Colloq ho-hum, dead, Brit dead-and-alive: This town becomes really slow in the autumn, till the tourists reappear in the spring. 10. reluctant, not quick, unwilling, hesitant, disinclined, averse, loadh or loth, indisposed: Even when provoked, Cassie tends to be slow to angeb. -(adv) 11. slowly, unhurriedly, cautiously, carefully, circumspectly: He failed his test because he drove too slow. 12. behindhand, tardily, late, unpunctually: All the trains seem to be running a bit slow tonight. 13. slowly, easy, leisurely, easily: They told him to take things slower or he'd have another heart attack. -(v) 14. Often, slow down or up. slack or slacken off, reduce speed, hold back, put on the brakes, take it easy: You'd better slow down before you come to Deadman's Hill. 15. relax, take it easy, Colloq ease up: The doctor suggested that at my age I ought to slow down a little.