"Slow" was also marked as a highlight of the album and is also known as one of Minogue's best. "Slow" received very positive reviews from music critics and fans alike, who thought the single was a departure from previous singles in sound and style. Musically, the song has an electropop feel. Written by Kylie Minogue, Dan Carey, Emilíana Torrini and produced by Sunnyroads, the song served as the album's lead single and was released on 3 November 2003. The song was later included on Minogue's second Greatest Hits compilation, Ultimate Kylie. "Slow" is a song performed by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue taken from her ninth studio album Body Language. William Shakespeare.įreebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: I would I knew not why it should be slow’d. Now do you know the reason of this haste? To omit by dilatoriness to delay to procrastinate. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.Īre sly slow things with circumspective eyes. Not hasty acting with deliberation not vehement. To guard their shore from an expected foe.ĭryden. Dull inactive tardy sluggish.įix’d on defence, the Trojans are not slow The slow of speech make in dreams unpremeditated harangues, or converse readily in languages that they are but little acquainted with.Īddison. Mine ear shall not be slow, mine eye not shut. Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast. These changes in the heav’ns, though slow, produc’d
Where the motion is so slow as not to supply a constant train of fresh ideas to the senses, the sense of motion is lost. Where God resides, and on mid-day arriv’d Who since the morning hour set out from heav’n, Not swift not quick of motion not speedy not having velocity wanting celerity. Slow-pacing thrice around th’ insidious pile.Įtymology: slaw, sleaw, Saxon sleeuw, Frisick. T’ explore the fraud with guile oppos’d to guile, Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pac’d evil,įor eight slow-circling years by tempests tost. This day’s death denounc’d, if ought I see,
T’ a body, and went but by the body’s leave, This slow-pac’d soul, which late did cleave Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Lacking spirit deficient in liveliness or briskness. 29.īehind in time indicating a time earlier than the true time. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding. Not hasty not precipitate lacking in promptness acting with deliberation. John is very slow he is ten seconds behind everybody else when it comes to math. Of reduced intellectual capacity not quick to comprehend. These changes in the heavens, though slow, produced Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast. Not happening in a short time spread over a comparatively long time. 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. To become slow to slacken in speed to decelerate. To keep from going quickly to hinder the progress of. Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
"the clock is almost an hour slow" "my watch is running behind" "he spoke slowly" "go easy here-the road is slippery" "glaciers move tardily" "please go slow so I can see the sights" Without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') Slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken verb "business is dull (or slow)" "a sluggish market"ĭecelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard verb "a boring evening with uninteresting people" "the deadening effect of some routine tasks" "a dull play" "his competent but dull performance" "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention" "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke "tedious days on the train" "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness (used of timepieces) indicating a time earlier than the correct timeīoring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome adjective "so dense he never understands anything I say to him" "never met anyone quite so dim" "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions" "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse" "worked with the slow students" Slow to learn or understand lacking intellectual acuity "a slow walker" "the slow lane of traffic" "her steps were slow" "he was slow in reacting to the news" "slow but steady growth"ĭense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow adjective Not moving quickly taking a comparatively long time Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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