📖 Определения и значения для слова slow
📒 not moving, acting or done quickly; taking a long time; not fast
- a slow pace/speed
- Average earnings are rising at their slowest rate for 20 years.
- a slow driver
📒 not going or allowing you to go at a fast speed
- I missed the fast train and had to get the slow one (= the one that stops at all the stations).
📒 hesitating to do something or not doing something immediately
- slow to do something She wasn't slow to realize what was going on.
- The world's governments have been slow to respond to global environmental challenges.
- slow in doing something Some insurance companies are particularly slow in processing claims.
📒 not quick to learn; finding things hard to understand
- He's the slowest in the class.
📒 not very busy; containing little action
- Sales are slow (= not many goods are being sold).
- There are slow passages in which little happens, but they help to build up the suspense.
📒 showing a time earlier than the correct time
- My watch is five minutes slow (= it shows 1.45 when it is 1.50).
📒 slow film is not very sensitive to light
📒 to be quick/slow to understand something
- Is he always this slow on the uptake?
📒 to slowly get angry
📒 fast/slow in reacting to a situation
- If you’re quick off the mark in answering these questions, you could win a prize.
- The government was slow off the mark in responding to the crisis.