English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: moving at a slow pace
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- crawling
- languid
- languorous
- draggy
- creeping
- dreich (Northern England, North Midlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland)
- gastropodous
- glacial
- heavy-footed
- inching
- inert
- labored
- leaden
- lead-footed
- lethargic
- low-speed
- lumbering
- plodding
- pokey
- ponderous
- slothlike
- slow
- slow as a snail
- slow as Christmas
- slow as molasses
- slow as molasses in January
- slowfooted
- sluggish
- stately
- steady [⇒ thesaurus]
- subglacial (hyperbolic, informal)
- sullen [⇒ thesaurus]
- tardigrade
- tedious
- testudineous
- torpid
- turtleish
- turtlesque
- unspeedy
Antonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “275. slowness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “slow” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.