slowly

A2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈsloʊli/ UK /ˈsləʊli/ See IPA manual

Freq #1734

Meanings

1

adv
At a slow speed; not quickly.

He drove slowly through the busy streets.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adv · at a slow speed; not quickly. gradually

Opposites

quickly rapidly

Appears in

Proverbs (3)

See all

Tongue twisters (1)

See all

Six Slippery Snails
Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.

Move directly from /s/ into /l/ in slippery, slid and slowly, and into /n/ in snails. Avoid inserting an extra vowel into those clusters.

Etymology

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

slowly Middle English slāwlīċe Old English

View etymology graph ->

Topics

Describing Qualities

External links

markdown