slow
adj.adj. taking a long time to move or happen. You use this to describe something that does not have much speed.
adj. moving, acting, or happening without much speed. Often modified by degree adverbs like 'very' or 'quite'.
The traffic is very slow today.
The internet connection is so slow that I cannot download the video for our meeting.
Economists warned that a slow recovery could lead to long-term unemployment and reduced consumer spending across the region.
From Middle English slow, slaw, from Old English slāw (“sluggish, inert, slothful, late, tardy, torpid, slow”), from Proto-West Germanic slaiw, from Proto-Germanic slaiwaz (“blunt, dull, faint, weak, slack”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleyH-u- (“bad”). Cognate with Scots slaw (“slow”), West Frisian sleau (“slow, dull, lazy”), Dutch sleeuw (“blunt, dull”), Low German slee (“dull, sluggish”), German schlehe, schleh (“dull, exhausted, faint”), Danish sløv (“dull, torpid, drowsy”), Swedish slö (“slack, lazy”), Icelandic sljór (“dim-witted, slow”).
Typically placed before a noun or after a linking verb like 'be' or 'become'.
He drives very slow.He drives very slowly.While 'slow' is sometimes used as an adverb in informal speech, 'slowly' is the standard form for modifying a verb.