| go-slow | a form of protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problem from their employers |
| slow virus | a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear, kuru is caused by a slow virus |
slow loris
Nycticebus tardigradua
Nycticebus pygmaeus | stocky lemur of southeastern Asia |
| slow lane | the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving slowly |
| slow match | match or fuse made to burn slowly and evenly |
denseness dumbness
slow-wittedness | the quality of being mentally slow and limited |
| growing pains | problems that arise in enlarging an enterprise (especially in the early stages) |
| slow motion | a movie that apparently takes place at a slower than normal speed, achieved by taking the film at a faster rate |
| growing pains | emotional distress arising during adolescence |
| growing | (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state |
growth
growing
maturation
development ontogeny
ontogenesis | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically, a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level, he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children |
| growing pains | pain in muscles or joints sometimes experienced by children and often attributed to rapid growth |
extended time scale
slow time scale | (simulation) the time scale used in data processing when the time-scale factor is greater than one |
| growing season | the season during which a crop grows best |
relax
loosen up
unbend unwind
decompress
slow down | become less tense, rest, or take one's ease, He relaxed in the hot tub, Let's all relax after a hard day's work |
| decelerate slow down | reduce the speed of, He slowed down the car |
decelerate
slow
slow down
slow up retard | lose velocity, move more slowly, The car decelerated |
| slow slow down slow up slack slacken | become slow or slower, Production slowed |
| slow slow down slow up | cause to proceed more slowly, The illness slowed him down |
dull
slow
sluggish | (of business) not active or brisk, business is dull (or slow), a sluggish market |
dense
dim
dull
dumb
obtuse
slow | 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 |
| slow | 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 |
| slow-moving | moving slowly, slow-moving cars |
| slow | at a slow tempo, the band played a slow waltz |
| slow | (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time, the clock is slow |
low-growing
flat-growing
ground-hugging | of plants that grow relatively low to the ground |
boring
deadening
dull ho-hum
irksome
slow
tedious
tiresome
wearisome | 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 |
aggressive
fast-growing(a)
strong-growing | tending to spread quickly, an aggressive tumor |
backward
half-witted
slow-witted
feebleminded | retarded in intellectual development |
| leggy tall-growing | (of plants) having tall spindly stems |
| growing | relating to or suitable for growth, the growing season for corn, good growing weather |
slowly slow
easy tardily | without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly'), he spoke slowly, go easy here--the road is slippery, glaciers move tardily, please go slow so I can see the sights |
| behind slow | of timepieces, the clock is almost an hour slow, my watch is running behind |