slowly

From Middle English slowly, slowli, slouli, slowliche, from Old English slāwlīċe (“slowly; sluggishly”), equivalent to slow +‎ -ly. Compare Old Norse slæliga, sljóliga.

• Rhymes: -əʊli
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsloʊli/

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• Hyphenation: slow‧ly

slowly (comparative slowlier or more slowly, superlative slowliest or most slowly)

1. (manner) At a slow pace.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

   • 2022 October 8, Julia Horowitz, “How meltdown in a $1 trillion market brought the UK to the brink of a financial crisis”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.

• ponderously, sluggishly, with leaden wings (idiomatic, obsolete); See also Thesaurus:slowly

• quickly
• rapidly

• slow