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Results for: "slow"

Translating from English to Albanian

Translations:

slow — not quick in motion
→ i ngadalshëm

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


VERB (3)

1. lose velocity; move more slowly;
- Example: "The car decelerated"
[syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard]

2. become slow or slower;
- Example: "Production slowed"
[syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken]

3. cause to proceed more slowly;
- Example: "The illness slowed him down"
[syn: slow, slow down, slow up]


ADJECTIVE (6)

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

2. at a slow tempo;
- Example: "the band played a slow waltz"

3. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
- Example: "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"
- Example: "never met anyone quite so dim"
- Example: "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
- Example: "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"
- Example: "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"
- Example: "worked with the slow students"
[syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]

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

5. so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;
- Example: "a boring evening with uninteresting people"
- Example: "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"
- Example: "a dull play"
- Example: "his competent but dull performance"
- Example: "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"
- Example: "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke
- Example: "tedious days on the train"
- Example: "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain
- Example: "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
[syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]

6. (of business) not active or brisk;
- Example: "business is dull (or slow)"
- Example: "a sluggish market"
[syn: dull, slow, sluggish]


ADVERB (2)

1. without speed (`slow'; is sometimes used informally for `slowly');
- Example: "he spoke slowly"
- Example: "go easy here--the road is slippery"
- Example: "glaciers move tardily"
- Example: "please go slow so I can see the sights"
[syn: slowly, slow, easy, tardily]

2. of timepieces;
- Example: "the clock is almost an hour slow"
- Example: "my watch is running behind"
[syn: behind, slow]