Crossword clues for slower
slower
- Shouted for song moving too fast
- Ritardando, in music
- Largo, vis-a-vis larghetto
- What a ritardando gradually gets
- Not quick on the uptake
- More like a turtle or snail
- Like the tortoise, vis-a-vis the hare
- Like right-lane traffic, usually
- Like largo with respect to adagio
- Less quick
- Less likely to win the race
- Less hurried
- Largo, vis-a-vis adagio
- Largo, compared to andante
- Largo, compared to adagio
- Hare, vis-â-vis tortoise
- Adagio, as compared to allegro
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slow \Slow\ (sl[=o]), a. [Compar. Slower (sl[=o]"[~e]r); superl. Slowest.] [OE. slow, slaw, AS. sl[=a]w; akin to OS. sl[=e]u blunt, dull, D. sleeuw, slee, sour, OHG. sl[=e]o blunt, dull, Icel. sl[=o]r, sl[ae]r, Dan. sl["o]v, Sw. sl["o]. Cf. Sloe, and Sloth.]
Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate; as, a slow stream; a slow motion.
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Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.
These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
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Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish; as, slow of speech, and slow of tongue.
Fixed on defense, the Trojans are not slow To guard their shore from an expected foe.
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Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
--Prov. xiv. 29. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow.
Not advancing or improving rapidly; as, the slow growth of arts and sciences.
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Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull. [Colloq.]
--Dickens. Thackeray.Note: Slow is often used in the formation of compounds for the most part self-explaining; as, slow-gaited, slow-paced, slow-sighted, slow-winged, and the like.
Slow coach, a slow person. See def.7, above. [Colloq.]
Slow lemur, or Slow loris (Zo["o]l.), an East Indian nocturnal lemurine animal ( Nycticebus tardigradus) about the size of a small cat; -- so called from its slow and deliberate movements. It has very large round eyes and is without a tail. Called also bashful Billy.
Slow match. See under Match.
Syn: Dilatory; late; lingering; tardy; sluggish; dull; inactive.
Usage: Slow, Tardy, Dilatory. Slow is the wider term, denoting either a want of rapid motion or inertness of intellect. Dilatory signifies a proneness to defer, a habit of delaying the performance of what we know must be done. Tardy denotes the habit of being behind hand; as, tardy in making up one's acounts.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. (en-comparative of: slow) Etymology 2
n. That which slows.
WordNet
adv. more slowly
Usage examples of "slower".
With all the People come to Matakwa, the country around the Meeting Ground was busy with trails: they must ride slower, and carefully, lest they lose the sign.
His companions rode slower behind him, and as he left them behind he told himself they must be right.
Those too weak to oppose them were banished to the less favorable sections: around the perimeter of the hull, where the air circulated slower and thicker and the journey to water butt or soup tub was longer.
Heavier than the Speeds, and slower off the mark, but their massive engines and inertial compensators meant they could reach much higher velocities.
It was easy to see how he had come to be named back in the age of sail, this master of the air on motionless wings and fierce despoiler of fatter, slower breeds.
But Asskickers, slower and clumsier, paid a high price for screaming down on U.
Frenchy Bergeron answered, a quarter of a heartbeat slower than he should have.
She started to walk again, but now her step was slower and more regulated, and by the time she reached Commercial Street she had managed to calm herself considerably.
Rogers, who was a split-second slower, went sprawling across the corridor, where he lay unconscious beside his phaser.
However, in the real world light does not speed up or slow down, it cannot be kicked to a higher speed or dragged to a slower one.
We conclude that in comparison to a stationary clock, the rate of ticking of the sliding clock becomes slower and slower as it moves faster and faster.
At first he suspects a mechanical problem, since those times seem to indicate that the car was traveling slower than 100 miles per hour on the last three runs.
The first thing to do in such a case, I remembered old Flight Sergeant Norris telling us, is to reduce throttle setting from cruise speed to a slower setting, to give maximum flight endurance.
He was flying slower than I, he could not keep up if he tried to fly beside me.
More letters flashed in the helmet display, warning that this was the last exit before the border tolls, and she eased the trike sideways into the slower lane.