Definitions
(of business) not active or brisk
Word origin
From Middle English slaw, slow, from Old English slāw (“lazy; inert, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic *slaiw, from Proto-Germanic *slaiwaz (“blunt; dull; exhausted, faint, sluggish, weak, weary; listless, torpid; dim-witted, slow; lazy, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”).
Used in a sentence
“a slow train; a slow computer”
“Turkey should always be cooked in a slow oven.”
“Theſe changes in the Heav’ns, though ſlow, produc’d / Like change on Sea and Land, ſideral blaſt, / Vapour, and Miſt, and Exhalation hot, / Corrupt and Peſtilent: […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer6 curated clues
01“Low in speed”4 letters
02“Moving at low speed”4 letters
03“Not moving quickly”4 letters
04“Not quick”4 letters
05“Not speedy”4 letters
06“Not fast”4 letters
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