Slow

Definition: Slow

Slow

Adjective

1. Not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time; "a slow walker"; "the slow lane of traffic"; "her steps were slow"; "he was slow in reacting to the news"; "slow but steady growth".

2. (music) at a slow tempo; "the band played a slow waltz".

3. Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "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".

4. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time; "the clock is slow".

5. So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "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".

6. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market".

Adverb

1. Without speed; "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly' as in "please go slow; I want to see the sights").

2. Of timepieces; "the clock is almost an hour slow"; "my watch is running behind".

Verb

1. Lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated".

2. Become slow or slower; "Production slowed".

3. Cause to proceed more slowly; "The illness slowed him down".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Slow

Diuturnity

Lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out; Verb: long-pending, long-winded; slow.

Dullness

Stupid, slow, flat, insipid, vapid, humdrum, monotonous; melancholic; stolid; plodding.

Lateness

Adjective: late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory; (slow); delayed; Verb: in abeyance.

Leisure

Adjective: leisure, leisurely; slow; deliberate, quiet, calm, undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end.

Moderation

Adjective: moderate; lenient; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober, temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered; Verb: calm, unruffled, quiet, tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable; pacific, halcyon.

Physical Inertness

Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Crosswords: Slow

I have a feeling they're very slow. (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

You know, the elderly, although slow, and dangerous behind the wheel, can serve a purpose (Dumb and Dumber; writing credit: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, and Bennett Yellin.)

Honey, just cuz I talk slow doesn't mean I'm stupid (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

If they're big and your little, then you're fast and they're slow. You're hidden and they're exposed (Enemy of the State; writing credit: David Marconi)

Then we have to slow it down (Speed 2: Cruise Control; writing credit: Graham Yost; Jan de Bont)

Hold me, roll me, slow ridin' woman you're so fine (Slow Ride; performing artist: FOGHAT)

And though my fuse is burning slow (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC)

Bumpin' and Grindin' like a slow jam (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

That's Too Slow (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah)

You need a song that's slow (Don't Rock The Jukebox; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. (references; author: unknown)

Middle age starts when you have been warned to slow down, not by a motorcycle cop, but by your doctor. (references; author: unknown)

A man has reached middle age when he is cautioned to slow down by his doctor, instead of by the police. (references; author: unknown)

Time is relative: The mind makes it slow, the heart makes it fast, our friends make it worth while, and words make it timeless. (references; author: unknown)

Six short slow shepherds. (references; author: unknown)

The Wicked Die Slow (1968)

Slow Down! Speed Up! (1967)

Run Home Slow (1965)

Slow But Sure (1934)

Go Slow Come Easy (1928)

SLOW RIDE (performing artist: FOGHAT)

Slow Hand (performing artist: The Pointer Sisters)

Nice & Slow (performing artist: Usher)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Alpha Lipoic Acid Breakthrough: The Superb Antioxidant That May Slow Aging, Repair Liver Damage, and Reduce the Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes (reference)

• Betty Crocker's Easy Slow Cooker Dinner: Delicious Dinners the Whole Family Will Love (Betty Crocker) (reference)

• Delicious & Dependable Slow Cooker Recipes (reference)

• Slow Dissolve (reference)

• Slow Dance: A Story of Stroke, Love, and Disability (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Slow - English Ed (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Slow Burn (reference)

• Art of Hitting Slow Pitch Soft (reference)

• Bellydance! Slow Moves (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Vienna Classicism in slow movements, Vol. 1: Haydn (reference)

• Slow Commotion [LIVE] (reference)

• Slow Death (reference)

• Slow to Fade [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Here Come the Girls, Vol. 9: Slow Fizz (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Rival 3850-W 5-Quart Programmable Crock Pot Slow Cooker, White (reference)

• Rival 3860-W 6-Quart Programmable Crock Pot Slow Cooker, White (reference)

• Arrow Fastener BSS6-4 4" Superpower Slow Set Glue Sticks (24-Pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

These very slow growing tumors usually originate from enterochromaffin cells of the small intestine, and are very rare. One quarter of the time they develop in the lungs. Credit: CDC.

Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as ... Credit: NASA.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of ... Credit: NASA.

Egyptian tomb painting from 1450 B.C. showing officer with sounding pole Officer is telling crew to come ahead slow Engineers with cat-o'-nine-tails assuring proper response from engines. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A root wad is placed in the middle of the pools to slow flow and provide habitat for migrating fish. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Stromatolites are club-shaped structures formed by a slow buildup of microbial mats trapping ooid sands. These form in high energy channels where migrating sand dunes and chemical precipitation of carbonate cement are dominant seafloor processes. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 4. A lead fish used for continuous sounding operations at slow speed. This device was invented in 1914 and improved by Pierre Marti in 1920. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 33. Meyer slow registering thermometer invented by Dr. Adolph Meyer and first used on the POMMERANIA in 1871 and then by various German scientific studies. It was used down to 50 meters but would stay submerged for about an hour to register the proper temperature because it was highly insulated. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

F-22 Raptor 4002 fires an AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile during a separation test at 40,000 feet Dec. 13. Flown at a 26-degree angle-of-attack at only Mach .4 speed, the test flight demonstrated the Raptor's ability to operate at slow speeds in a co.

These bendway weirs installed along the Spoon River in Peoria County, Illinois, help to slow down the fast-moving waters that can cause serious streambank erosion damage. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This power to act according to discretion, for the public good, without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that which is called prerogative: for since in some governments the lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous, and so too slow, for the dispatch requisite to execution; and because also it is impossible to foresee, and so by laws to provide for, all accidents and necessities that may concern the public, or to make such laws as will do no harm, if they are executed with an inflexible rigour, on all occasions, and upon all persons that may come in their way; therefore there is a latitude left to the executive power, to do many things of choice which the laws do not prescribe. (Second Treatise of Government)

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Still from each fact, with skill uncouth And savage rapture, like a tooth She wrenched some slow reluctant truth

The same step, slow and regular, was coming and going constantly over his head

The fellows were practising long shies and bowing lobs and slow twisters

Take her slow.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

CRF is the slow, gradual loss of kidney function. (references)

Rest after meals, because activity may slow digestion. (references)

Ask your doctor to slow down when you need more time to write. (references)

Business

The idea of bundled services at a fixed cost has been slow to expand. (references)

Winter 1999/2000 was a comparatively slow time for Norwegian travel agents. (references)

He attributed the slow development of GPRS/WAP(wireless application protocol) to the shortage of content. (references)

Children

Israel and the occupied territories

The petitioners rejected this proposal as being too slow. (references)

Slovenia

Modifications of public and private structures to ease access by the disabled continued, although at a slow pace. (references)

Venezuela

The judicial system, although slow, ensures that in most situations children are removed from abusive households once a case has been reported. (references)

Civil Liberties

Nepal

The Broadcast Act allows private television and FM radio broadcasts, but implementation of the Act has been slow. (references)

Croatia

Internal management reforms continued to be slow, primarily due to difficulties in reducing the bloated workforce. (references)

Russia

Nonetheless at times authorities sometimes have been slow to carry out such rulings and in many cases have appealed the rulings. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

However, since then progress has been slow. (references)

Azerbaijan

Negotiations with EBRD have been very slow. (references)

Tunisia

Progress toward full democracy has been slow. (references)

Human Rights

Italy

Trials were slow throughout the country. (references)

India

Court action in cases of extrajudicial killings is slow and uncertain. (references)

Yugoslavia

Investigations into many past abuses were slow and often not transparent. (references)

Minorities

Slovenia

Most opted not to take Slovene citizenship during a 6-month window in 1991-92 and have been living in the country as essentially stateless persons since then, while others were without residence status because of the slow processing of their applications by the Government. (references)

Colombia

The same law also authorized Afro-Colombian communities to receive collective titles to some Pacific coastlands; however, Afro-Colombian leaders complained that the Government was slow to issue titles, and that their access to such lands often was inhibited by the presence of armed groups or individuals. (references)

Political Economy

KUWAIT

Uncertain and slow judicial action is also a hurdle. (references)

Trade

Ghana

Implementation of ECOWAS initiatives has been slow. (references)

Japan

Thus, the import process is at times slow and difficult. (references)

Germany

Administrative hurdles still slow down the development of this promising import market. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

Trains are slow, but generally safe. (references)

Costa Rica

Internet connectivity is poor and extremely slow. (references)

Georgia

Currently, inter-city public transport is slow and unreliable. (references)

Worker Rights

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Local officials have been slow to bring charges of intimidation. (references)

East Timor

Slow progress in writing a new labor code has restricted labor action in many sectors. (references)

Lithuania

The LWU also charged that the judicial system was slow to respond to LWU grievances regarding dismissals from work. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "slow": at a slow pace ♦ be a slow coach ♦ be a slow learner ♦ be slow ♦ be slow in learning ♦ be slow of speech ♦ be slow on the uptake ♦ be slow to ♦ be slow to do smth. ♦ be slow to take offence ♦ be unable to slow down ♦ by slow degrees ♦ drag its slow length along ♦ drive dead slow ♦ go at a slow pace ♦ go slow ♦ in slow motion ♦ maddeningly slow ♦ make slow progress ♦ slow ACCH ♦ slow and sure ♦ slow appended control channel ♦ slow busy ♦ slow but steady ♦ slow coach ♦ slow cook ♦ slow down ♦ slow down in speed ♦ slow fading ♦ slow FH ♦ slow frequency hopping ♦ slow goods ♦ slow grower ♦ slow hole ♦ slow lane ♦ slow lemur ♦ slow line ♦ slow loris ♦ slow march ♦ slow match ♦ slow motion ♦ slow motion picture ♦ slow moving ♦ slow of comprehension ♦ slow on the uptake ♦ slow payer ♦ slow plod ♦ slow roll ♦ slow running ♦ slow smth. down ♦ slow smth. off ♦ slow speed ♦ slow speed ahead! ♦ slow speeds ♦ slow test ♦ slow time ♦ slow time scale ♦ slow to react ♦ slow to understand ♦ slow to wrath ♦ slow train ♦ slow up ♦ slow virus ♦ Slow Virus Diseases ♦ slow wave ♦ slow wits ♦ slow witted ♦ slow worm ♦ very slow. Additional references.

Beginning with "slow": slow-acting, slow-bowled, slow-breathing, slow-breeding, slow-burn, slow-burner, slow-burning, slow-but-sure, slow-closing, slow-coach, slow-combustion, slow-cooked, slow-cooking, slow-core, slow-crawl, slow-dance, slow-dances, slow-dancing, slow-developing, slow-down, slow-draining, slow-flapping, slow-flowing, slow-flying, slow-footed, slow-going, slow-groove, slow-grooving, slow-grower, slow-growing, slow-grown, slow-growth, slow-handclapped, slow-hand-clapped, slow-learning, slow-looking, slow-match, slow-matches, slow-maturing, slow-minded, slow-mo, slow-motion, slow-motion film, slow-motioned, slow-moving, slow-moving', slow-onset, slow-oozing, slow-paced, slow-paying, slow-punctured, slow-reacting, slow-release, slow-ripening, slow-rooting, slow-running, slow-rusting, slow-scan, slow-selling, slow-set, slow-simmered, slow-speaking, slow-speed, slow-spinning, slow-spoken, slow-starter, slow-starting, slow-stately, slow-stepped, slow-subsiding, slow-tempo, slow-thinking, slow-top, slow-traffic lane, slow-turning, slow-twitch, slow-wave, slow-whirling, slow-witted, slow-wittedness, slow-working, slow-worm, slow-worms.

Ending with "slow": at-slow, go-slow, snail-slow, too-slow, ultra-slow.

Containing "slow": never-slow-on-the-uptake.

Albanian

ul shpejtësinë (decelerate, throttle), që mbetet prapa, ngadalësohem (ease off, ease up), ngadalë (deliberately, doggo, gradually, noiselessly, slowly), i vonuar (behindhand, belated, blunt, delayed, detained, dilatory, late, latecomer, outstanding, overdue, tardy), i ngalët (slack, sluggish), i ngadaltë (creeping, deliberate, dilatory, lingering, long, slack, sluggish), i ngadalshëm (mild, plodding, tardy), i mërzitshëm (annoying, boring, bothersome, corny, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dry, dull, fatiguing, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome, weary), i avashtë (dull, sluggish, tardy), avash (slowly). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مبطئ (late), ‏بطىء (cumbersome, dilatory, heavy, indolent, languid, lazy, lento, slow motion, tardy), ‏بليد (bovine, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, passive, silly, sleepy, slow moving, sluggish, stupid, thick-headed, torpid, unworkable), ‏بهدوء (easy, evenly, placidly, play cool, quietly, softly), ‏أخر الساعة (put back), ‏تباطأ (dawdle, decelerate, lag, linger, slop), ‏تباطأ في خطواته, ‏تدريجي (gradual, imperceptible, piecemeal), ‏ببطء (go slow, heavily, lingeringly, slowly, tardily), ‏تكلم ببطء, ‏كسول (dull, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, languid, languorous, lazy, lethargic, lumpish, passive, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggardly, sluggish, supine), ‏مشى ببطء (fudge, linger on, paddle), ‏مضجر (annoying, boring, dim, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, pest, ponderous, prosy, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏متبلد العقل (barren, slow witted), ‏متراخي (slothful), ‏متأخر (arrear, back, behindhand, belated, late, outstanding, overdue, tardy), ‏متوان (dilatory, laggard), ‏متمهل (deliberate, easygoing, relaxed), ‏ممل (boring, dreary, dull, humdrum, irksome, iterative, monotonous, mundane, ponderous, stodgy, tedious, tiresome, troublesome, uninteresting, vapid, weariful, wearisome, weary), ‏تسير ببطء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

несъобразителен (improvident), пипкав (bungling, clumsy, having the pip, laggard, pokey, sluggish), бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, languid, leaden, leisurely, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, tardy, unready), бавно (deliberately, leisurely, piano, slowly), забавям (arrest, cool, defer, delay, detain, hang up, hold back, hold off, hold over, inhibit, postpone, put back, put over, retard, set back, sidetrack, slacken, slow down, stave off, steady), заспал (asleep, sleepy), муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slothful, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine, tardy), изостанал (backward, underdeveloped), намалявам скоростта (ease up, skid, slow down), скучен (arid, dead alive, drear, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dusty, heartbreaking, heavy, humdrum, insipid, jejune, jogtrot, long, long winded, long-spun, moldy, monotonous, mouldy, mousey, plodding, pokey, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, soggy, stodgy, stuffy, tedious, uninspired, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, weariful, wearisome), вял (colorless, colourless, dead alive, half hearted, indolent, insipid, lackadaisical, leaden, lifeless, remiss, torpid), който изостава, тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under, uneventful), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grave, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), слаб (defective, dim, effeminate, faint, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flimsy, impotent, irretentive, lame, lean, light, limp, liny, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, nerveless, off, pale, poor, puny, queasy, rickety, scanty, scrannel, sick, sinewless, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, sluggish, small, soft, spare, spineless, tender, tenuous, thin, thready, unable, washy, watery, weak, weakish, weakly), намалявам темпото (slow down). (various references)

Catalan

lent. (various references)

Chinese 

慢 . (various references)

Czech

pomalý (largo, lingering, tardy). (various references)

Danish

langsom. (various references)

Dutch

langzaam (adagio, leasurely, slowly). (various references)

Esperanto

malrapida, lanta. (various references)

Estonian

taga. (various references)

Faeroese

seinførur, seigligur. (various references)

Farsi 

یواش , کند (Ballast, Blunt, Dilatory, Dull, Haunt, Heavy, Late, Lazy, Leaden, Slack, Sluggish, Tardy, Unapt, Unready), کودن (Backward, Birdbrain, Cockeyed, Crass, Doddering, Dull, Dunce, Lug, Sappy, Slight, Unapt, Unintelligent), تنبل (Idle, Inactive, Indolent, Laze, Lazy, Lazybones, Sloth, Slothful, Slouch, Sluggish, Tardy), تدریجی (Gradual, Imperceptible, Piecemeal), اهسته کردن یاشدن , اهسته (Gentle, Gradual, Indistinct, Languid, Light, Low). (various references)

Finnish

vitkallinen (dilatory, tardy), verkkainen (easy-going), verkalleen (at a slow rate, leisurely, slowly), nahjusmainen (sluggish), hitaasti vaikuttava, hidaskulkuinen, hidas tekemään työtä, hidas (dilatory, leisurely, tardy), aikaaviepä (time-consuming). (various references)

French

lent (slowly). (various references)

Frisian

stadich, traach. (various references)

German

langsam (about time, adagio, dilatory, dull, laggard, lazy, lingering, slowly, sluggish, tardily, tardy), träge (dull, idle, idly, indolent, indolently, inert, inertly, languid, languidly, languorous, languorously, lazily, lazy, lethargic, lethargically, phlegmatic, shiftless, slack, slothful, sluggardly, sluggish, stagnant, supine, supinely, tardy, torpid). (various references)

Greek 

βραδύσ (adagio, largo, leisurely, lento, slack, sluggish, tardy), βραδύνω (lag), βραδύς (lingering), αργόσ (dilatory, idle, late, lingerer, otiose). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפגר (laggard, retarded, retrograde, tardy), לאט (noiselessly, slowly), להאט (ease up, retard, slacken, slow down), אטי (pokey, tardy). (various references)

Hungarian

lassú (adagio, dawdling, deliberate, leisurely, moderate, ooze, pokey, poky, sluggish, tardy, to go at a walk, to jog along, to move at a walk), vontatott (drawling, droning, halting, languid, slack, towed), lassan (adagio, at a slow pace, easy, inchmeal, leisurely, slowly, sullenly). (various references)

Icelandic

seinn. (various references)

Indonesian

perlahan (slowly), pelan, lambat (dilatory, tardy), gagak (raven), culas (clumsy, deceitful, indolent, lazy, plodding), ayal (doubtful). (various references)

Irish

mall (late). (various references)

Italian

lento (dull, loose, slack, sluggish, tardy), lungo (adagio, along, alongside, by the side of, during, far, gently, length, lengthy, long, over, slowly, tall, thin, watery, weak). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遅々 (lagging), 遅い (late), 緩慢 (dull, sluggish), 緩い (lenient, loose), 悠長 (deliberate, easygoing, leisurely). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かんまん (dull, ebb and flow, sluggish), ちちたる (lagging, tardy), ていちょう (captain, courteous, dullness, hospitable, inactive, low tide, low tone, polite, slack, sluggish, undertone, weakness), てぬるい (lax, lenient), とろい (dull, stupid), もたもた (inefficient), ゆるい (lenient, loose), ゆうちょう (deliberate, easygoing, leisurely, mountain bird, tedious), ちち (breast, father, lagging, loop, milk), あたまがわるい (weak-headed), おそい (late), にぶい (dull, stupid, thickheaded), どん (coveting, dull, dull-brained, stupid), どんくさい (irritating, stupid), のろい (a charm, a curse, dull, stupid, thickheaded), のろくさい (irritating, stupid), ふかっぱつ (dull, inactive, lethargic, quiet, sluggish), まのび (stupid), しりおも, スロー (throw). (various references)

Korean 

느린. (various references)

Malay

lambat. (various references)

Manx

moaldey (meagre), moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing). (various references)

Norwegian

langsom. (various references)

Pig Latin

owslay.(various references)

Portuguese

lento (blockish, dilatory, drowsy, dull, heavy, laggard, lagging, languid, largo, lazy, lentous, plodding, ponderous, slack, slowpoke, sluggish, stick-in-the-mud, tardy). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

lenta. (various references)

Romanian

lent (deliberate, easy going, slowly, sluggish), încet (at a slow pace, dawdling, dead alive, deliberate, dilatory, dull, dull-headed, easy, faint, gentle, hist, lagging, lazily, lazy, leasurely, leisurely, lingering, low, slack, slow but steady, slowly, sluggish, soft, still, tardy, time-taking, weak), încetini (delay, let up, retard, slacken), alene (carelessly, drowsy, idly, indolently, lazily, slacky, sleepily, sleepy, slowly), care rãmâne în urmã (lagging), domol (don't hurry, gently, gradually, leisurely, mild, not so fast, quiet, slowly, softly), greoi (artless, bearish, dull, elephantine, gawky, heavy, hulking, lubberly, lumpish, massy, ponderous, stodgy, stolid, ungainly, ungraceful, unwieldy, weighty), greu de cap (blunt, doltish, thick-headed, wooden-headed), în urmã (aback, abaft, after, ago, back, backward, backwards, behind, behindhand, in arrear of), indiferent (all one, all the same, anywhere, apathetic, apathetical, careless, chill, cool, dull, impassive, indifferent, indifferently, inhuman, insensible, insensitive, lackadaisical, languid, listless, nonchalant, numb, perfunctory, phlegmatic, pococurante, reckless, remiss, slack, sluggish, stolid, unconcerned, unimportant, unmoved), tacticos (calm, leisurely, slowly, steady, tranquil), liniştit (breathless, calm, calmly, comfortable, composed, cool, dead, dispassionate, easy, even, gentle, gently, gently-sloping, halcyon, imperturbable, in comfortable circumstances, mild, noiseless, orderly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, peaceful, peacefully, placid, placidly, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, restful, secure, sedate, serene, silent, smooth, sober, soft, still, tranquil, unabashed, unruffled, untroubled), merge mai încet, molatic (flabby, heavy, remiss, spineless, weak), molcom, monoton (bald, dead, ding-dong, drab, dull, flat, humdrum, inanimate, monotonous, monotonously, same, singsong, tame, uneventful), nepãsãtor (airily, apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, careless, casual, devil may care, easy going, happy go lucky, heedless, impassible, impassive, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indolent, insensible, insouciant, jaunty, lackadaisical, listless, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, reckless, regardless, remiss, slack, stolid, thoughtless, unmoved), plictisitor (boring, boringly, dead, dreadful, dry, dull, dully, flat, heavy, irksome, jejune, languorous, long winded, long-spun, monotonous, monotonously, pedestrian, pesky, pestersome, pestiferous, repetitious, repetitive, sententious, tedious, tediously, tiresome, trying, weary), reduce vitezã, inactiv (dead, dormant, flat, idle, inactive, inoperative, passive, unemployed). (various references)

Russian 

отставать (be in arrears, drag, drop behind, fall behind, lag, lag behind, lose ground, straggle), медленный (creeping, dilatory, long, slow-acting, sluggish, tardy, unhurried), медленно (deliberately, heavily, leasurely, slowly), медлительный (costive, dilatory, laggard, lingering, slack, slowcoach, sluggish, tardy), замедляться, замедлять медленный, замедлять (decelerate, retard, slacken, slaken, slow down, slow up, slows). (various references)

Scottish

socrach (at ease, comfortable, steady), teadalach, mall (placid), liosda, fòil (gentle, mild, stately; calm, tranquil). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sporo (slowly), spor (bovine, contest, controversy, dilatory, laggard, lazy, litigation, logy, poky, quarrel, sluggish, tardy, unhurried), usporiti (go slow, retard, slacken, slow down, throw back), usporen (delayed, down at heel), tromo (heavily), trom (bovine, heavy-footed, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, leaden, listless, logy, otiose, sluggish, torpid), polako (slowly, softly), polagan, pipav (pernickety, sluggish), lagan (leisurely, unhurried), koji zaostaje, dosadan (acerbate, annoying, boring, bothersome, drear, dreary, grinding, humdrum, incommodious, long-spun, pain in the neck, pesky, poky, repetitious, stodgy, stuffy, teasing, tedious, tiresome, undiverted, vexatious), dockan (late). (various references)

Spanish

lento (deliberate, dilatory, dour, easy, gentle, heavy, labored, laboured, lingering, pokey, poky, shuffling, slow witted, sluggish). (various references)

Sranan

safrisafri. (