slow

moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity.

characterized by lack of speed.

taking or requiring a comparatively long time for completion.

requiring or taking a long time for growing, changing, or occurring; gradual.

made, created, or done in a careful, thorough, or traditional way in order to ensure such benefits as quality, environmental sustainability, or time for mental reflection: ������'s known as slow journalism is an approach to reporting that avoids superficial headlines and instead focuses on in-depth storytelling and a more considered analysis of events.

sluggish in nature, disposition, or function.

dull of perception or understanding; mentally dull.

not prompt, readily disposed, or in haste (usually followed by to or an infinitive).

burning or heating with little speed or intensity, as a fire or an oven.

slack; not busy.

having some quality that retards speed or causes movement, progress, work, etc., to be accomplished at less than the usual or expected rate of speed: a slow road.

running at less than the proper rate of speed or registering less than the proper time, as a clock.

passing heavily or dragging, as time.

not progressive; behind the times: a slow town.

dull, humdrum, uninteresting, or tedious.

Photography.��requiring long exposure, as by having a small lens diameter or low film sensitivity.

(of the surface of a race track) sticky from a fairly recent rain and in the process of drying out.

to make slow or slower (often followed by up ordown ).

to retard; reduce the advancement or progress of.