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slow-moving
adjective as in lazy
Strongest matches
adjective as in leisurely
adjective as in slack
adjective as in slack
Strongest matches
adjective as in slow
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in slow-footed
Strongest match
Weak matches
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-going
- slow-paced
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- torpid
- tortoiselike
adjective as in slow-going
Weak matches
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-footed
- slow-paced
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
adjective as in slow-paced
Weak matches
- apathetic
- crawling
- creeping
- dawdling
- delaying
- deliberate
- dilatory
- disinclined
- dreamy
- drowsy
- easy
- gradual
- heavy
- idle
- imperceptible
- inactive
- indolent
- inert
- lackadaisical
- laggard
- lagging
- leaden
- leisurely
- lethargic
- listless
- loitering
- measured
- moderate
- negligent
- passive
- phlegmatic
- plodding
- ponderous
- postponing
- procrastinating
- quiet
- reluctant
- remiss
- slack
- sleepy
- slothful
- slow-footed
- slow-going
- sluggish
- snaillike
- stagnant
- supine
- tardy
- torpid
- tortoiselike
adjective as in torpid
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Although its magma held a high amount of gas and was capable of a major explosion, the eruption initially produced a slow-moving lava flow inside the cone.
Detecting slow-moving, low-flying craft that are often no bigger than birds and not always visible on radars is hard.
Litter was floating on top of this slow-moving sludge of sewage.
The 1963 rupture of a city dam, releasing a deluge that destroyed 260 homes and killed six in the community below, set in motion a slow-moving campaign to extract a public benefit from the disaster.
Driving by night, police on motorcycles led slow-moving convoys down narrow back roads.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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