Slowly

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊli
• RP IPA: /ˈsləʊli/
• GenAm IPA: /ˈsloÊŠli/
• Hyphenation: slow + ly

Origin

slow + -ly

Full definition of slowly

Adverb

1. At a slow pace.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 5, 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.

Antonyms

• quickly

Related terms

• slow