drawl; creeping &c v., lentor†.
retardation; slackening &c v.; delay &c (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 &c (inactive) 683.
V. move slowly &c adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter,
saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle &c (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 &c (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.
Adj. slow, slack; tardy; dilatory &c (inactive) 683; gentle, easy;
leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial,
languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade†, snail-like; creeping &c v.;
reptatorial†.
Adv. slowly &c 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 &c 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.
Phr. dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit [Lat.]; at a glacial pace.