Of a person: spending a comparatively long time carrying out particular tasks or actions; acting in an unhurried, deliberate manner.

Of persons: Indisposed to action or exertion; inclined to be slow or slothful; not easily moved to activity.

= tardy, adj.

Slow, sluggish; (of a person) tardy or reluctant to begin or do something; dilatory; spec. slow to pay for something or settle debts (cf. sense 7).

Slow, sluggish; laggard.

Tardy, slow. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. Slow in thought or action; sluggish, unprogressive. rare.