OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 662

slow

/sləʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lento • lerdo
Taking a long time to move or go a short distance, or to perform an action; not quick in motion; proceeding at a low speed.
Holding out her small olive hand before her captain, she said in mild and slowest Spanish, "Senor, I buried him;" then paused, struggled as against the writhed coilings of a snake,…
a slow train; a slow computer
caído de la cama • caído de la esfera • caído de la hamaca • caído de la mata • caído del catre • caído del níspero • caído del palto • caído del zarzo • lerdo • no tener dos dedos de frente • tardo • tardón • zote
Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
Experienced classroom teachers are well acquainted with the attention-seeker, the shy girl, the aggressive boy, the poor concentrator, the slow student […]
Hey, don't yell at Homer, just because he's a little slow.
atrasado
Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time.
That clock is slow.
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