slowly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   without speed, 'slow' is sometimes used informally for 'slowly'

   They spoke slowly to be better understood.

2. 2
   adv

   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.

3. 3
   adv

   in music

Etymology

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