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. deviation,
swerving, obliquation|,
warp, refraction,
flection,
flexion,
sweep,
deflection,
deflexure, declination,
diversion,
digression, depart from,
aberration,
divergence,
zigzag,
detour,
divagation, wandering,
vagrancy,
evagation, bypaths and crooked ways,
byroad,
sidling, knight's move at chess
V. alter one's course,
deviate, depart from, turn,
trend, bend, curve,
swerve,
heel, bear off,
gybe, wear,
intervert,
deflect,
divert, divert from its course, put on a new scent,
shift,
shunt, draw aside,
crook,
warp,
stray,
straggle,
sidle,
diverge, tralineate|,
digress,
wander, wind, twist,
meander,
veer,
tack, divagate, sidetrack, turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from, wheel, steer clear of,
ramble,
rove, drift, go astray, go adrift,
yaw,
dodge, step aside, ease off, make way for,
shy, fly off at a tangent, glance off, wheel about, face about, turn to the right about, face to the right about,
waddle, go out of one's way, lose one's way
Adj. deviating,
aberrant,
errant,
excursive,
discursive,
devious,
desultory, loose,
rambling,
stray,
erratic,
vagrant, undirected,
circuitous, indirect,
zigzag, crab-like
Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways,
circuitously, obliquely,
sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard