slow-moving
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2.3
- adjective
- /sloʊˈmuːvɪŋ/
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lento
- It's a much more slow moving difficult market than it was maybe a year, two years ago.
- slow-moving stream
So you've got these slow moving but high assurance settlement systems.
- So you've got these slow moving but high assurance settlement systems.
- This is not good because real estate is a very slow moving Goliath.
- The it's you guys can't believe how many documents, how slow moving the legal system is.
- So we train and how to intercept usually very slow moving aircraft that don't know where they are.
- Wow, a giant slow moving disaster waiting to happen is getting his own blimp.
- But real estate is much more slow moving.
- Because now the question they're asking is what can we do about this slow moving coup?
- If you have fast moving air, there is lower pressure than slow moving air.
- It's kind of, it's kind of True Detective meets John Carpenter's The Thing and it's a very slow moving build up show.
- I mean, it's so slow moving compared to just, I mean, real estate's slow, but land is even slower, right?
- So just if you're OK with a kind of slow moving beginning.
- Tanks basically death drafts just slow moving and they're they're not immune to anti tank weapons.
Examples
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The people seemed spellbound, slow-moving if moving at all.
Academic text (2007) -
After a time, the innkeeper, a slow-moving man named Corgin, drew up a stool and joined them.
Fiction book (2002) -
I mean, it's so slow moving compared to just, I mean, real estate's slow, but land is even slower, right?
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This is not good because real estate is a very slow moving Goliath.
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All in all it is a slow moving but heavy hitting support piece which follows close behind frontline forces.
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The vast scope of American higher education makes it a massive, slow-moving animal.
Academic text (2016) -
The roads were clogged with slow-moving trucks traveling between the fields and the grain.
Fiction book (1990) -
The Florida manatee is more than just a slow-moving, seal-shaped marine animal.
Academic text (1991) -
Then, at the last possible moment, Girard spies an escape: a slow-moving haycart rumbling up the country road.
Fiction book (1993) -
There is slow-moving traffic on the highway during rush hour.
Synonyms
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1.0
Moving or happening at a low speed
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1.0
Moving slowly and in a relaxed way
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3.9
Moving or working slowly and with little energy
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5.3
Moving or working slowly and without much energy
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7.9
Moving slowly and wasting time
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7.9
Slow to act or move, causing delay
Showing little energy and moving at a low speed
In a slow way that makes tasks finish late
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Slow-moving is made from the common words slow ('not fast') and moving ('going or changing place'). So, slow-moving simply means 'moving at a slow speed' or 'not quick to progress'.