Usually means: Lacking speed, unhurried, deliberately delayed.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. slow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slow, slow: Wordnik
  7. slow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. slow: Wiktionary
  9. slow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slow: Dictionary.com
  13. slow (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Slow (DJ), Slow (Kylie Minogue song), Slow (Richie Kotzen album), Slow (Rumer song), Slow (band), Slow (disambiguation), Slow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slow: Rhymezone
  19. slow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Slow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. slow: Free Dictionary
  23. slow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. slow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. slow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SLOW: Band Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. slow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLOW: Acronym Finder
  2. slow: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slow, slow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Slow: Dan's Poker

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  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.
adjective:  Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
adjective:  Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
adjective:  Not hasty; not tending to hurry; acting with deliberation or caution.
adjective:  (of a clock or the like) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
adjective:  Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
adjective:  (of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
verb:  (transitive) To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
verb:  (intransitive) To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
noun:  Someone who is slow; a sluggard.
noun:  (music) A slow song.
adverb:  Slowly.

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