slowness
缓慢,迟钝,迟缓,慢性
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Definitions
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slow·er, slow·est.
- : moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
- : characterized by lack of speed: a slow pace.
- : taking or requiring a comparatively long time for completion: a slow meal; a slow trip.
- : requiring or taking a long time for growing, changing, or occurring; gradual: a plant of slow growth.
- : made, created, or done in a careful, thorough, or traditional way in order to ensure such benefits as quality, environmental sustainability, or time for mental reflection:Give slow tourism a try as you leisurely explore this charming island, soak in the surrounding nature, and savor local encounters.What's known as slow journalism is an approach to reporting that avoids superficial headlines and instead focuses on in-depth storytelling and a more considered analysis of events.
- : sluggish in nature, disposition, or function.
- : dull of perception or understanding; mentally dull: a slow child.
- : not prompt, readily disposed, or in haste: slow to anger; slow to take offense.
- : burning or heating with little speed or intensity, as a fire or an oven.
- : slack; not busy: The market was slow today.
- : 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.
- : running at less than the proper rate of speed or registering less than the proper time, as a clock.
- : passing heavily or dragging, as time: It's been a slow afternoon.
- : not progressive; behind the times: a slow town.
- : dull, humdrum, uninteresting, or tedious: What a slow party!
- : Photography. requiring long exposure, as by having a small lens diameter or low film sensitivity: a slow lens or film.
- : sticky from a fairly recent rain and in the process of drying out.
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slow·er, slow·est.
- : in a slow manner; slowly: Drive slow.
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- : to make slow or slower.
- : to retard; reduce the advancement or progress of: His illness slowed him at school.
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- : to become slow or slower; slacken in speed.
Phrases
- slow burn
- slow but sure
- slow down
- slow on the uptake
- slow up
- mills of the gods grind slowly
- on the uptake, slow
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
It was a slow process, said Preeti Malani, chief health officer at the University of Michigan.
The three carriers say they offer “nationwide” 5G coverage via this slower version.
That automatically applies the trailer’s electric brakes whenever you slow down to avoid overloading the truck’s own brakes.
With in-person social options limited to slow the spread of the coronavirus, people have turned to virtual communities such as Groups for companionship or just to pass time.
So even if you’re moving relative to the light, time itself will slow down precisely long enough for you to measure light’s speed at the very one required by Maxwell’s equations.
At times it can seem too proud of its virtuous noncommerciality; its slowness can seem shallow, its artiness willful.
Her death is faked by means of a drug that slows her heart to near-death slowness.
“The key to the show, to building towards the big lines, is in the pauses, the slowness,” she says.
Teased for their slowness, many become depressed and angry and act out.
In her hands, celluloid comes off as a medium that allows for old-fashioned rumination, with some of the slowness of oil paint.
He sang the words with an odd, emphatic slowness, turning to look at Lettice between the phrases.
Saw-dust has little value as a manure, as it undergoes decomposition with extreme slowness.
Maud Barrington laughed a little, for his face was visible and she understood the slowness of his answer.
I paced the deck for hours, and grew morose and nervous, chafing under the slowness of the stout craft.
Her energy was in the slowness; but for inimitable strength, I felt she would have run, she would have flown to me.