Slow vs Mental - What's the difference?
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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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Not happening in a short time; spread over a comparatively long time.
* (John Milton)
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, title= Of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend.
Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation.
* The Bible, Prov. xiv. 29
(of a clock or the like) Behind]] in time; indicating a time [[early, earlier than the true time.
Lacking spirit; deficient in liveliness or briskness.
(of a period of time) Not busy; lacking activity.
To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of.
To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.
To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.
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Slowly.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to the mind or an intellectual process.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Insane, mad, crazy.
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Enjoyable; fun.
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(lb) Of or relating to the chin or median part of the lower jaw, genial.
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(lb) Of or relating to the chin-like or lip-like structure.
As nouns the difference between slow and mental
is that slow is someone who is slow; a sluggard while mental is moron.As an adjective slow
is 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.As a verb slow
is to make (something) run, move, etc less quickly; to reduce the speed of.As an adverb slow
is slowly.slow
English
Adjective
(er)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
- These changes in the heavens, though slow , produced / Like change on sea and land, sidereal blast.
Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.}}
- He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
Synonyms
* See also * (taking a long time to move a short distance) deliberate; moderate * (not happening in a short time) gradual * (of reduced intellectual capacity) dull-witted * (acting with deliberation) dilatory, inactive, tardy, slothful, sluggish * (lacking spirit) boring, dullAntonyms
* (taking a long time to move a short distance) fast, quick, rapid, swift * (of reduced intellectual capacity) prompt, quick * (acting with deliberation) hasty, precipitate, prompt * (lacking spirit) brisk, livelyDerived terms
* slow motion, slo-mo * slow-belly * slow burn * slowish * slowly * slow march * slowness * slowpokeVerb
(en verb)- After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
Synonyms
* (keep from going quickly) delay, hinder, retard * (become slow) decelerate, slackenDerived terms
* slower * slow up * slow downAdverb
(er)- That clock is running slow .
- Let him have time to mark how slow time goes / In time of sorrow.
mental
English
(wikipedia mental)Adjective
(-)Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}