slow

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not moving or happening quickly.

   The traffic was very slow this morning.

2. 2
   verb

   To make or become slower.

   The car slowed as it approached the corner.

3. 3
   adj

   Showing a time earlier than the real time.

   My watch is five minutes slow.

4. 4
   adj

   Not busy or active.

   Business is always slow in the winter.

Common collocations

• slow dance Adjective + noun

From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).

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