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Definition of Slowgoing
1. Adjective. Not inclined to be enterprising.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowgoing
Literary usage of Slowgoing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1907)
"Manin was far too sober and slowgoing for them ; a republic more absolutely free
than anything France could concoct was the only government fit for thinking ..."
2. Indiana Historical Society Publications by Indiana Historical Society (1911)
"The village is slowgoing and conservative in comparison with most of our towns.
Comparatively isolated as it has always been by not being on any direct line ..."
3. The Association Review (1907)
"... with the other slowgoing, time and strength consuming processes of its day,
the day of the stage coach and the canal boat, of the sickle and the flail, ..."
4. The Association Review (1907)
"But has not the work, now grown so great, outgrown this old, slowgoing, and
altogether inadequate method of training? Has not our pedagogy reached a stage ..."
5. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"... means conduct themselves like slowgoing and respectable Southdowns or Aldermanic
Cheviots, but fight like Turks, climb like goats, and run like hares. ..."
6. The History of Concord, Massachusetts by Alfred Sereno Hudson (1904)
"... stagnation and make the life of the Puritan far from being staid or "slowgoing."
Such were the surroundings ; and such were some of the scenes witnessed ..."
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