Definition of Slowest

1. Adverb. Most slowly.

Partainyms: Slow

Definition of Slowest

1. Adjective. (superlative of slow) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slowest

1. slow [adj] - See also: slow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowest

slow virus diseases
slowback
slowbacks
slowball
slowcoach
slowcoaches
slowcore
slowdown
slowdowns
slowed
slower
slowers
slowest (current term)
slowgoing
slowing
slowings
slowish
slowlier
slowliest
slowliness
slowly
slowly but surely
slowmatch
slowmatches
slowness
slownesses
slowpitch

Literary usage of Slowest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of Problems in Illustration of the Principles of Elementary by William Walton (1880)
"Lines of-slowest descent. (1) To determine the straight line of slowest descent from a given point to a given circle, the point being without the circle and ..."

2. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1882)
"An ellipse is placed with its minor axis horizontal ; find (1) the lines of quickest, or slowest, descent from any point on the major ¡ixis to the curve, ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"... was when cold broken open in the slowest manner by very tapering wedges; but its interior was found to be in large crystals, while its exterior showed a ..."

4. Orthophony: Or, The Cultivation of the Voice in Elocution. A Manual of by James Edward Murdoch, James Rush, George James Webb (1877)
"It approaches however, to a considerable degree of definiteness in its use of the designations " slowest," or " very slow;" " slow ;" "moderate;" "lively;" ..."

5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1857)
"lution in the same time, the moon, having the least orbit, must move slowest. A little farther on, Dante having asked Piccarda whether she desired no higher ..."

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