N. diuturnity, a long time, a length of time, an age, a century, an eternity,
slowness,
perpetuity, blue moon, coon's age, dog's age,
durableness,
durability,
persistence, endlessness, lastingness, continuance, standing, permanence survival,
survivance,
longevity, distance of time, protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time, delay
V. last,
endure, stand, remain,
abide, continue, brave a thousand years,
tarry, drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a lengthening chain,
protract,
prolong, spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen out,
temporize, gain time, make time, talk against time, outlast, outlive,
survive, live to fight again
Adj. durable, lasting, of long duration, of long-standing, permanent, endless,
chronic, long-standing,
intransient, intransitive,
intransmutable,
persistent,
lifelong,
livelong,
longeval,
long-lived,
macrobiotic,
diuturnal,
evergreen,
perennial,
sempervirent, sempervirid,
unrelenting,
unintermitting,
unremitting, perpetual,
lingering,
protracted, prolonged, spun out, long-pending, long- winded, slow
Adv. long, for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long, for many a long day, long ago, longo intervallo, all the day long, all the year round, the livelong day, as the day is long, morning noon and night, hour after hour, day after day, &c, for good, permanently
N. slowness,
languor,
drawl,
creeping,
lentor,
retardation,
slackening, delay, claudication|, jog trot, dog trot, mincing steps, slow march, slow time, slow goer, slow coach, slow back,
lingerer,
loiterer,
sluggard,
tortoise,
snail, poke*,
dawdle V. move slowly,
creep,
crawl,
lag,
slug,
drawl,
linger,
loiter,
saunter,
plod,
trudge, stump along,
lumber,
trail,
drag,
dawdle,
grovel, worm one's way, steal along, job on, rub on, bundle on,
toddle,
waddle,
wabble,
slug,
traipse,
slouch,
shuffle,
halt,
hobble,
limp, caludicate|,
shamble, flag,
falter,
trotter,
stagger,
mince, step short, march in slow time, march in funeral procession, take one's time, hang fire,
retard,
relax,
slacken, check, moderate, rein in,
curb,
reef, strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail, put on the drag, apply the brake, clip the wings, reduce the speed, slacken speed, slacken one's pace, lose ground
Adj. slow,
slack,
tardy,
dilatory, gentle, easy, leisurely,
deliberate, gradual, insensible,
imperceptible,
glacial,
languid,
sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade|,
snail-like,
creeping, reptatorial
Adv. slowly, leisurely,
piano,
adagio,
largo,
larghetto, at half speed, under easy sail, at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a funeral pace, in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings, haud passibus aequis, gradually, gradatim, by degrees, by slow degrees, by inches, by little and little, step by step, one step at a time, inch by inch, bit by bit, little by little,
seriatim,
consecutively Phr. dum roma deliberat saguntum perit, at a glacial pace, 3, motion conjoined with force
N. unwillingness, indisposition, indisposedness, disinclination,
aversation,
nolleity,
nolition,
renitence,
renitency,
reluctance, indifference, backwardness,
slowness, want of alacrity, want of readiness,
indocility,
scrupulousness,
scrupulosity, qualms of conscience, twinge of conscience, delicacy,
demur,
scruple,
qualm,
shrinking,
recoil,
hesitation,
fastidiousness,
averseness, dissent,
refusal V. be unwilling,
nill, dislike,
grudge,
begrudge, not be able to find it in one's heart to, not have the stomach to,
demur, stick at,
scruple,
stickle, hang fire, run rusty,
recoil,
shrink,
swerve,
hesitate, avoid,
oppose, dissent, refuse
Adj. unwilling, not in the vein,
loth,
loath, shy of, disinclined, indisposed,
averse,
reluctant, not content,
adverse,
laggard, backward, remiss,
slack, slow to, indifferent,
scrupulous,
squeamish,
repugnant, restiff|, restive,
demurring, unconsenting, involuntary
Adv. unwillingly,
grudgingly, with a heavy heart, with a bad, with an ill grace, against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain, invita minerva, a contre caeur, malgre soi, in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself, nolens volens,
perforce, under protest, no, not for the world, far be it from me
