Definitions For Slow

verb

  • Lose velocity; move more slowly
  • Become slow or slower
  • Cause to proceed more slowly
  • To begin to move at a lower speed
  • To make (something, such as a car) move at a lower speed
  • To become slower

adjective

  • (of business) not active or brisk
  • Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
  • So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness

adjective

  • Not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
  • At a slow tempo
  • (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct time

adverb

  • Without speed (slow' is sometimes used informally for slowly')
  • Of timepieces

noun

  • In a slow way or at a low speed

Is Slows a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
8
Words with Friends
9

The word Slow is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Slow in a Sentence

  • The buyers were slow to act, and the house was sold to someone else.
  • He was a quiet boy who seldom spoke, and some people thought he was a little slow.
  • Business is slow during the summer.
  • My computer is working slow.
  • You need to go slow with this experiment, or you'll make mistakes
  • The car slowed and gradually came to a stop.
  • The extra weight slowed the truck.

Synonyms for Slow

Antonyms for Slows

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