DICTOMETER

LANGSOM (Norwegian for "slow")

(slow, thoughtful, desaplicado, lento, sentado)

1. Synonyms:
   • Decelerate
   • Slow
   • Slow down
   • Slow up
   • Retard
   Definitions:
   • lose velocity
   • move more slowly
   Examples:
   • The car decelerated
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Slow
   • Slow down
   • Slow up
   • Slack
   • Slacken
   Definitions:
   • become slow or slower
   Examples:
   • Production slowed
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Slow
   • Slow down
   • Slow up
   Definitions:
   • cause to proceed more slowly
   Examples:
   • The illness slowed him down
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Slow
   Definitions:
   • not moving quickly
   • taking a comparatively long time
   Examples:
   • A slow walker
   • The slow lane of traffic
   • Her steps were slow
   • He was slow in reacting to the news
   • Slow but steady growth
   Antonyms:
   • FAST
   • accelerated
   • alacritous
   • blistering, hot, red-hot
   • double-quick
   • express
   • fast-breaking
   • fast-paced
   • fleet, swift
   • high-speed, high-velocity
   • hurrying, scurrying
   • immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway
   • instantaneous, instant(prenominal)
   • meteoric
   • quick, speedy
   • rapid
   • rapid, speedy
   • smart
   • winged
   • windy
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Slow
   Definitions:
   • at a slow tempo
   Examples:
   • The band played a slow waltz
   Antonyms:
   • FAST
   • allegro
   • allegretto
   • andantino
   • presto
   • prestissimo
   • vivace
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Dense
   • Dim
   • Dull
   • Dumb
   • Obtuse
   • Slow
   Definitions:
   • slow to learn or understand
   • lacking intellectual acuity
   Examples:
   • So dense he never understands anything I say to him
   • Never met anyone quite so dim
   • Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick- Thackeray
   • Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
   • He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
   • Worked with the slow students
   Antonyms:
   • Smart
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Slow
   Definitions:
   • (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time
   Examples:
   • The clock is slow
   Antonyms:
   • FAST
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Boring
   • Deadening
   • Dull
   • Ho-hum
   • Irksome
   • Slow
   • Tedious
   • Tiresome
   • Wearisome
   Definitions:
   • so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
   Examples:
   • A boring evening with uninteresting people
   • The deadening effect of some routine tasks
   • A dull play
   • His competent but dull performance
   • A ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention
   • What an irksome task the writing of long letters is- Edmund Burke
   • Tedious days on the train
   • The tiresome chirping of a cricket- Mark Twain
   • Other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome
   Antonyms:
   • Interesting
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Dull
   • Slow
   • Sluggish
   Definitions:
   • (of business) not active or brisk
   Examples:
   • Business is dull (or slow)
   • A sluggish market
   Antonyms:
   • Active
   
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Slowly
   • Slow
   • Easy
   • Tardily
   Definitions:
   • without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')
   Examples:
   • He spoke slowly
   • Go easy here
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Behind
   • Slow
   Definitions:
   • of timepieces
   Examples:
   • The clock is almost an hour slow
   • My watch is running behind