This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

adj. Not moving or able to move quickly; proceeding at a low speed: a slow train; slow walkers.

adj. Marked by a retarded tempo: a slow waltz.

adj. Taking or requiring a long time: the slow job of making bread.

adj. Taking more time than is usual: a slow worker; slow progress in the peace negotiations.

adj. Allowing movement or action only at a low speed: a slow track; a slow infield.

adj. Registering a time or rate behind or below the correct one: a slow clock.

adj. Lacking in promptness or willingness; not precipitate: They were slow to accept our invitation.

adj. Characterized by a low volume of sales or transactions: Business was slow today.

adj. Lacking liveliness or interest; boring: a slow party.

adj. Not having or exhibiting intellectual or mental quickness: a slow learner.

adj. Only moderately warm; low: a slow oven.

ad. So as to fall behind the correct time or rate: The watch runs slow.

ad. At a low speed: Go slow!

v. To make slow or slower.

v. To delay; retard.

verb-intransitive. To become slow or slower.

adj. Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.

adj. Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.

adj. Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.

adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.

adj. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.

adj. That takes a long time to transfer data.

adj. Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.

adj. Not busy; lacking activity.

v. To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.

v. To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.

v. To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.

n. Someone who is slow; a sluggard.

n. A slow song.

ad. Slowly.

imperative. Slew.

adj. Moving a short space in a relatively long time; not swift; not quick in motion; not rapid; moderate; deliberate.

adj. Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.

adj. Not ready; not prompt or quick; dilatory; sluggish.

adj. Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation; tardy; inactive.

adj. Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.

adj. Not advancing or improving rapidly.

adj. Heavy in wit; not alert, prompt, or spirited; wearisome; dull.

ad. Slowly.

v. To render slow; to slacken the speed of; to retard; to delay.

verb-intransitive. To go slower; -- often with up.

n. A moth.

Taking a long time to move or go a short distance; not quick in motion; not rapid: as, a slow train; a slow messenger.

Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time; gradual: as, a slow change; the slow growth of arts.

Not ready; not prompt or quick; used absolutely, not quick to comprehend; dull-witted.

Tardy; dilatory; sluggish; slothful.

Not hasty; not precipitate; acting with deliberation.

Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time: as, the clock or watch is slow.

Dull; lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness: used of persons or things: as, the entertainment was very slow.

Synonyms Delaying, lingering, deliberate.

3 and

Heavy, inert, lumpish.

1–4. Slow, Tardy, Dilatory. Slow and tardy represent either a fact in external events or an element of character; dilatory only the latter. Dilatory expresses that disposition or habit by which one is once or generally slow to go about what ought to be done. See idle.

n. A sluggard.

Slowly.

To become slow; slacken in speed.

To make slow; delay; retard.

To slacken in speed: as, to slow a locomotive or a steamer: usually with up or down.

n. A Middle English spelling of slough.

n. In zoöl, a sluggish or slow-paced skink, as the slow-worm or blindworm, Anguis fragilis; also, a newt or eft of like character.

n. A Middle English preterit of slay.

adj. (of business) not active or brisk

adj. not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time

ad. without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

adj. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

adj. (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

v. cause to proceed more slowly

v. lose velocity; move more slowly

ad. of timepieces

adj. at a slow tempo

v. become slow or slower

"You see the hog's back trail was fifteen miles shorter than the Valley road and they could afford to go it slow; in fact, _very slow_."

inactive    dilatory    poky    long-play    long-playing    sulky    pokey    sluggish    slow-moving    laggard   

quicken   

slowed    slowing    slowness    slows   

weaken   

dull    sluggish    late    deliberate    retard    slow nervous fever    slow coach    slow lemur    slow loris    slow music   

slowed    slowing    slower    slow down    slow up   

slew    dilatory    inactive    tardy    lingering    dull    late    sluggish    moderate    deliberate   

Au    Beau    Bio    Bo    Bordeaux    Boudreaux    Bow    Cloe    Co    Cousteau   

quick    steady    long    difficult    continuous