slowness

Roget category 275

2. Words relating to space
› 2.4. Motion
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#275. Slowness

noun

slowness etc. adj. — languor etc. (inactivity) 683 — drawl — creeping etc. v., lentor^†.
retardation — slackening etc. v. — delay etc. (lateness) 133 — claudication^†.
jog trot, dog trot — mincing steps — slow march, slow time.
slow goer^†, slow coach, slow back — lingerer, loiterer, sluggard, tortoise, snail — poke [U.S.] — dawdle etc. (inactive) 683.

verb

move slowly etc. adv. — creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter — plod, trudge, stump along, lumber — trail, drag — dawdle etc. (be inactive) 683 — grovel, worm one's way, steal along — job on, rub on, bundle on — toddle, waddle, wabble^†, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate^†, shamble — flag, falter, trotter, stagger — mince, step short — march in slow time, march in funeral procession — take one's time — hang fire etc. (be late) 133.
retard, relax — slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb — reef — strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail — put on the drag, apply the brake — clip the wings — reduce the speed — slacken speed, slacken one's pace — lose ground.

adjective

slow, slack — tardy — dilatory etc. (inactive) 683 — gentle, easy — leisurely — deliberate, gradual — insensible, imperceptible — glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade^†, snail-like — creeping etc. v. — reptatorial^†.

adverb

slowly etc. adj. — leisurely — piano, adagio — largo, larghetto — at half speed, under easy sail — at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace — in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings — haud passibus aequis [Lat.] [Vergil]. gradually etc. adj. — gradatim [Lat.] — by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little — step by step, one step at a time — inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim — consecutively.

phrase

dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit [Lat.] — at a glacial pace.

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