Word Meanings - SLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLOW)

• Chary
• Careful
• cautions
• calculating
• frugal
• shy
• wary
• sparing
• slow
• saving
• reluctant
• Dense
• Slow
• thick
• stupid
• stolid
• solid
• stout
• compact
• consolidated
• condensed
• close
• thickset
• Dilatory
• Tardy
• procrastinating
• loitering
• behindhand
• lagging
• dawdling
• Gradual
• continuous
• unintermittent
• gradational
• regular
• step by step
• progressive
• Late
• tardy
• delayed
• advanced
• deceased
• past
• recent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLOW)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to SLOW)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• CONSOLIDATED
  Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus. Consolidated plants are evidently adapted and designed for very dry regions; in such only they are found. Gray. The Consolidated Fund, a British fund formed by consolidating (in 1787)
• CHARYBDIS
  A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• CONSOLIDATION
  To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation. (more info) 1. The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated; solidification; combination. The consolidation of the marble and of the
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark