so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
Not hasty; not precipitate; lacking in promptness; acting with deliberation; tardy; dilatory; sluggish; slothful; inactive
slow off the mark: see mark slowly but surely: see surely slow on the uptake: see uptake. W2S2 slow down/up to become slower or to make something slower