slowly
advUK /ˈsləʊli/ · US /ˈsloʊli/
Etymology From Middle English slowly, slowli, slouli, slowliche, from Old English slāwlīċe (“slowly; sluggishly”), equivalent to slow + -ly. Compare Old Norse slæliga, sljóliga.
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Manner At a slow pace.
- 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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.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, archived from the original on 16 May 2024:
- Synonyms
- ponderously, sluggishly, with leaden wings, gradually, litherly, slowly, tardily
- Derived terms
- make haste slowly, please speak more slowly, slowlily, slowliness, slowly but surely, the mills of the gods grind slowly
- Related terms
- slow, monotonously, tediously, ritardando, lento
- Hyponyms
- deliberately, painstakingly