What is the difference between retard and slow?
retard | slow | Synonyms |
Retardation; delay.
(slang, offensive) A person with mental retardation.
(slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.
To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder
To put off; to postpone.
(obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
To decelerate; to slow down.
(obsolete) To stay back.
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
Slow is a synonym of retard.
In transitive terms the difference between retard and slow
is that retard is to put off; to postpone while slow is to keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of.In intransitive terms the difference between retard and slow
is that retard is to decelerate; to slow down while slow is to become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate.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 an adverb slow is
slowly.retard
English
(wikipedia retard)Noun
(en noun)- Do all retards have a low I.Q.?
Synonyms
* (retardation) delay, hold-up, retardation * (person with mental retardation) idiot, tard (offensive), imbecile (disused medical term), mental deficient (legal term), moron (disused medical term), person with learning difficulties * (stupid person) See alsoVerb
(en verb)- retard the march of an army
- retard the motion of a ship
- to retard the attacks of old age
- to retard a rupture between nations
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Synonyms
* decelerate, hinder, slow, slow down * (postpone) postpone, put off * (stay back) hang back, stay backAntonyms
* accelerate, speed, speed up * (postpone) * (stay back) come forwardDerived terms
* retardedReferences
*IQ Basics, including formerly used medical terms for people with very low IQs
Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----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.