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adj
Formed or occurring beneath a glacier or other body of ice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: supraglacial
adj
Moving at a rate allegedly slower than a glacier; extremely slow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: excessive, informal, not-comparable
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Synonyms: glacial, crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, tardy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, heavy-footed, inching, inert, labored, leaden, lead-footed, lethargic, low-speed, lumbering, plodding, pokey, ponderous, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, torpid, turtleish, turtlesque, unspeedy
Antonyms: cursory, express, fast, expeditious, feverish, fleet, fleeting, greased lightning, hasty, hectic, hectical, hyperactive, immediate, lightning fast, nimble, post haste, precipitant, quick, quick as a flash, quicksome, rapid, speedful, speedy, spit-spot, swift, tripsome, zippy
History
PIE word *upó From sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + glacial (“of or relating to glaciers; cold and icy; (figurative) very slow”).
Across languages
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
