slow

/sləʊ/

US pronunciation

American sound/sləʊ/

slow

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> slow

Myanmar meaning

(adj) နှေးသော။ ကြာသော။ ဉာဏ်ထိုင်းသော။ ထုံသော။ ကြန့်ကြာသော။ လေးကန်သော။ နှောင့်နှေးသော။ မသွက်သော။ ထိုင်းသော။ ဥအေးသော။ နှေးသောနာရီ။ ၃အနှေးယာဉ်၊လမ်းစသည်။ ၁ခအလင်းရောင်နှင့်တုံ့ပြန်ရာ၌နှေးသောဓာတ်ပုံဖလင်။ ၄နှေးနှေး။ ဖြည်းဖြည်းချင်း။ အရှိန်လျှော့ချသည်။ ဖင့်နှေးသည်။ အလုပ်သမားများဆန္ဒပြသည့်အနေဖြင့်အလုပ်ကိုတမင်နှေးနှေးလုပ်သည်။ ဖြည်းဖြည်းဖြည်းဖြည်းလုပ်သည်။ စိတ်မပါ့တပါနှင့်တရွတ်ဆွဲလိုက်နေသည်။ အလုပ်လောမကြီးနှင့်။ အေးအေးသက်သာလုပ်။ နှေးနှေး။ ဖြည်းဖြည်းချင်း။ သန္နေသန္နေ။ ဖြည်းဖြည်းနှင့်မှန်မှန်။ ရုပ်ရှင်၊ဗီဒီယိုအနှေးရိုက်ချက်၊ပြကွက်။

Full entry

slow /slå7/ adj (-er , -est )

၁။ နှေးသော။ ကြာသော။ a slow runner/ vehicle/ journey ❍ walk at a slow pace ❍ make a slow recovery from an illness ❍ make slow progress ❍ a tune played at a fairly slow tempo ❍ Political evolution is a long slow process.
၂။ ဉာဏ်ထိုင်းသော။ ထုံသော။ a slow child/
learner ❍ be slow at maths.
၃။ ~ to sth/to do sth ; ~ (in/about) doing sth ကြန့်ကြာသော။ လေးကန် သော။ နှောင့်နှေးသော။ (fml ) be slow to anger ❍ She was not slow to realize what was happening. ❍ They were very slow (about) paying me.
၄။ မသွက်သော။ ထိုင်းသော။ [ဥ] အေးသော။ The film's too slow (eg does not have enough exciting scenes, etc). ❍ Business is rather slow today (eg Not many goods are being sold).
၅။ နှေး [သော]နာရီ။ My watch is five minutes slow (eg It shows 1.45 when it is 1.50). Compare FAST¹၃
၆။ အနှေး(ယာဉ်၊ လမ်း စသည်)။ the slow lane of the motorway ❍ a slow train that stops at every station. Compare FAST¹ ၁ (ခ)
၇။ (အလင်းရောင်နှင့်တုံ့ပြန်ရာ၌) နှေးသော(ဓာတ်ပုံ ဖလင်)။ Compare FAST¹၄
adv (-er , -est ) (used esp in the comparative and superlative forms, or in compounds with participles) နှေးနှေး။ ဖြည်းဖြည်းချင်း။ Please walk a bit slower. ❍ slow-moving traffic ❍ He's a bit slow-minded (ie not very intelligent).
v ~ (sth/sb) (down/up) အရှိန်လျှော့ချသည်။ ဖင့်နှေးသည်။ Slow down/up a bit—I think it's the next road on the right. ❍ The train slowed (to a crawl) as it approached the station. ❍ Output has slowed (up) a little. ❍ She slowed the car down and then stopped. ❍ All this luggage is slowing me down. ❍ Lack of investment will slow (down) our economic growth.
❏ go slow [IDM ]
၁။ (အလုပ်သမားများ ဆန္ဒပြသည့်အနေ ဖြင့်)အလုပ်ကို တမင်နှေးနှေး လုပ်သည်။ See also GO-SLOW
၂။ ဖြည်းဖြည်းဖြည်းဖြည်းလုပ်သည်။ You ought to go slow until you feel really well again.
❏ go slow on sth [IDM ] (စိတ်မပါ့တပါနှင့်)တရွတ်ဆွဲ လိုက်နေသည်။ going slow on European integration.
❏ slow down/up [PHRV ] အလုပ်လောမကြီးနှင့်။ အေးအေး သက်သာလုပ်။ You must slow up a bit, or you'll make yourself ill.
❏ slowly adv နှေးနှေး။ ဖြည်းဖြည်းချင်း။ သိန္နေ သိန္နေ။ walk/speak/learn/react slowly ❍ She slowly opened the door. ❍ Slowly, things began to improve. ❍ You ought to take it slowly until you feel fully fit again.
❏ slowly but surely [IDM ] ဖြည်းဖြည်းနှင့်မှန်မှန်။ Slowly but surely her condition improved. slowness n [U]
❏ slow motion n [U] (ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဗီဒီယို) အနှေး (ရိုက်ချက်၊ ပြကွက်)။ a scene filmed in slow motion ❍ a slow motion replay.

More examples

A long slow walk to the top of the hill
A slow smile spread across her face.
Most large lorries are slow and difficult to drive.
Selecting the best candidate is a slow process.
[painfully slow] : Progress has been painfully slow.
I need a new laptop – this one’s really slow.
[slow to do something] : My boss is always slow to tell us about changes in the schedule.
[slow doing something] : They’re usually pretty slow in returning my phone calls.
My teachers thought I was a slow learner.
Adrian is a bit slow.
The first part of the film is very slow.
The weeks after Christmas are usually fairly slow in most shops.
Your watch is 15 minutes slow.
Cook in a very slow oven for 2 hours.
Slow journalism developed as a reaction to the 24/7 news cycle, with an emphasis on in-depth explanations of why stories matter and following them through to the end.
Welcome to slow travel, which comes to seem ever more tempting in an age of acceleration.

Synonyms

sluggish, unhurried, measured, deliberate, leisurely, dawdling, abate, anchor it, apathetic, back-water, backward, behind, behind schedule, behind time, behindhand, belated, bog down, brake, check, choke, conservative, crawling, creeping, curb, curtail, cut back, cut down, dead, decelerate, decrease, delay, delayed, delaying, dense, detain, detained, dilatory, dim, diminish, dimwitted, disinclined, down, draggy, drawn-out, dreamy, drowsy, dull, dumb, dunce, ease off, ease up, easy, embog, gentle, gradual, handicap, have to play catch up, heavy, hinder, hindered, hit the brakes, hold back, hold up, idle, imbecile, impede, impeded, imperceptible, in arrears, inactive, indolent, inert, keep waiting, laborious, lackadaisical, lag, laggard, lagging, late, lazy, leaden, lengthy, lessen, let down flaps, lethargic, limited, lingering, listless, loiter, loitering, long-delayed, long-drawn-out, long-winded, lose speed, lose steam, low, mire, moderate, moronic, negligent, obtuse, off, overdue, painful, passive, phlegmatic, plodding, ponderous, postpone, postponing, procrastinate, procrastinating, prolonged, protracted, qualify, quiet, reduce, reduce speed, reduced, reef, regulate, rein in, relax, relaxed, reluctant, remiss, restrict, retard, retardate, set back, simple, slack, slacken, sleepy, slothful, slow down, slow on the uptake, slow-moving, snaillike, stagnant, stall, stiff, stunt, stupid, supine, tame, tardy, tedious, temper, thick, time-consuming, torpid, tortoiselike, uneventful, unintelligent, unproductive, unprogressive, unpunctual, unresponsive, wind down

Antonyms

accelerate, active, advance, agitate, aid, allow, assist, bright, busy, chop chop, chop-chop, cognizant, complex, complicated, develop, do, encourage, energetic, enlarge, enthusiastic, excite, exciting, expand, expedite, expeditiously, extend, facilitate, fast, fleetly, forward, full tilt, further, grow, help, hurried, hurriedly, in haste, in nothing flat, in short order, increase, intelligent, interesting, intricate, lengthen, liberate, like a flash, like a shot, like greased lightning, like wildfire, lively, moving, on cue, on time, prolong, push, quick, raise, rapid, ready, release, securely, sharp, smart, solidly, soundly, steadfastly, strengthen, tightly, violent, waiting, wild