Crossword clues for slowest
slowest
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
a. (en-superlative of: slow)
WordNet
adv. most slowly
Usage examples of "slowest".
It sped across the distance between her and the slowest device and punched into its iron dome.
As the most powerful but slowest ship in the squadron, the Arcturus kept the windward station, and Mansur had the sharpest pair of eyes on board.
When it is displayed at the slowest rate, literally hundreds of aftershocks are visible, continuing for over a week.
The old horse had a tendency to go everywhere at the slowest imaginable speed.
The machines killed the slowest, or those who could no longer keep up, smashing their skulls with swift, efficient blows from their steel hands.
Moving in a formation whose speed was limited by the speed of the slowest ships.
She pulled over, into the slowest of the manual lanes, watching the warning lights stream along her display band: rear- and side-scan radar, automatic identity query and response, machine check.
We can continue at the slowest pace possible, to give them time to prepare.
It was the slowest and most primitive kind of safe-cracking, but it was the only thing that could possibly work against that goddam bastard son of a bitch The padlock.
It was, relatively to its length, by far the slowest in preparation of Mr.
December is the slowest month for SF conferences, because it is effectively only two weeks long.