ALL meanings of slowness
slow
S s - adjective slowness moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train. 1
- adjective slowness characterized by lack of speed: a slow pace. 1
- adjective slowness taking or requiring a comparatively long time for completion: a slow meal; a slow trip. 1
- adjective slowness requiring or taking a long time for growing, changing, or occurring; gradual: a plant of slow growth. 1
- adjective slowness sluggish in nature, disposition, or function. 1
- adjective slowness dull of perception or understanding; mentally dull: a slow child. 1
- adjective slowness not prompt, readily disposed, or in haste (usually followed by to or an infinitive): slow to anger; slow to take offense. 1
- adjective slowness burning or heating with little speed or intensity, as a fire or an oven. 1
- adjective slowness slack; not busy: The market was slow today. 1
- adjective slowness having some quality that retards speed or causes movement, progress, work, etc., to be accomplished at less than the usual or expected rate of speed: a slow, careful worker; a slow road. 1
- adjective slowness running at less than the proper rate of speed or registering less than the proper time, as a clock. 1
- adjective slowness passing heavily or dragging, as time: It's been a slow afternoon. 1
- adjective slowness not progressive; behind the times: a slow town. 1
- adjective slowness dull, humdrum, uninteresting, or tedious: What a slow party! 1
- adjective slowness Photography. requiring long exposure, as by having a small lens diameter or low film sensitivity: a slow lens or film. 1
- adjective slowness (of the surface of a race track) sticky from a fairly recent rain and in the process of drying out. 1
- adverb slowness in a slow manner; slowly: Drive slow. 1
- verb with object slowness to make slow or slower (often followed by up or down). 1
- verb with object slowness to retard; reduce the advancement or progress of: His illness slowed him at school. 1
- verb without object slowness to become slow or slower; slacken in speed (often followed by up or down). 1