slowly

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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• Hyphenation: slow‧ly

Adverb

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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• quickly
• rapidly

Derived terms

• make haste slowly
• please speak more slowly
• slowly but surely
• the mills of the gods grind slowly

Related terms

• slow

Translations

at a slow pace

• Abkhaz: ашьшьыҳәа (aššəḥʷa)
• Albanian: ngadalë (sq), avash (sq)

  Gheg: kadal (aln)

• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: بِبُطْء (bi-buṭʔ)

  Hijazi Arabic: بشويش (bišwēš)

  South Levantine Arabic: شوي شوي (šway šway), بشويش (bišwēš)

• Aragonese: lentament
• Armenian: դանդաղ (hy) (dandaġ), դանդաղորեն (hy) (dandaġoren), կամաց (hy) (kamacʻ)
• Assamese: লাহে লাহে (lahe lahe), লাহে ধীৰে (lahe dhire), ধীৰে ধীৰে (dhire dhire)
• Bashkir: яй (yay), аҡрын (aqrın), талғын (talğın)
• Basque: poliki
• Belarusian: паво́льна (pavólʹna)
• Breton: goustad (br)
• Bulgarian: ба́вно (bg) (bávno)
• Burmese: ဖြည်းဖြည်း (my) (hprany:hprany:)
• Catalan: lentament (ca), a poc a poc (ca)
• Chamicuro: peski'tujka
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: khoaⁿ-khoaⁿ

  Mandarin: 慢 (zh) (màn)

• Czech: pomalu (cs)
• Danish: langsomt
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: traag (nl), traagjes, langzaam (nl), langzaamaan (nl)
• Esperanto: malrapide
• Estonian: aeglaselt (et)
• Faroese: spakuliga
• Finnish: hitaasti (fi)
• French: lentement (fr)
• Galician: amodo, devagar, paseniño, engorde (gl), lentamente (gl)
• Gallurese: dittu
• Georgian: ნელა (nela)
• German: langsam (de)
• Greek: σιγά (el) (sigá), αργά (el) (argá)

  Ancient Greek: βραδέως (bradéōs)

• Hebrew: לאט (he) (le'át)
• Hindi: आहिस्ता (hi) (āhistā), धीरे (hi) (dhīre), धीरे-धीरे (dhīre-dhīre)
• Hungarian: lassan (hu)
• Icelandic: hægt (is), rólega
• Ido: lente (io)
• Indonesian: pelan-pelan (id)
• Ingrian: veenost
• Italian: lentamente (it), adagio (it), a rilento (it)
• Japanese: ゆっくり (ja) (yukkuri), そろそろ (ja) (sorosoro)
• Khanty:

  Eastern Khanty: њаᲊӽә (njatjḥə)

• Khmer: យឺតៗ (yɨɨt yɨɨt)
• Korean: 천천히 (ko) (cheoncheonhi), 느리게 (neurige)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: لەسەر خۆ (leser xo)

• Ladin: plan
• Ladino: avagar
• Lao: ຊ້າໆ (sā sā)
• Latin: lentē (la), tardē (la), segniter
• Latvian: lēnām, lēni, lēnu (rare)
• Macedonian: по́лека (póleka)
• Malay: perlahan (ms)
• Malayalam: പതുക്കെ (ml) (patukke)
• Middle English: esiliche
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: tąądee, tʼáá tłehee
• Norman: lentement
• Norwegian: sakte (no), langsomt (no)
• Occitan: lentament (oc)
• Odia: please add this translation if you can
• Old Assamese: লাসে লাসে (lase lase), ধীৰে ধীৰে (dhīre dhīre)
• Old English: late, lætlīċe
• Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} mbegue (gn)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: آهسته (fa) (âheste)
• Polish: powoli (pl), wolno (pl), pomału (pl), nieśpiesznie (pl), nieprędko (pl), niemrawo, pomalutku (pl)
• Portuguese: devagar (pt), lentamente (pt), vagarosamente (pt)
• Romanian: încet (ro), lent (ro), domol (ro), lentamente (ro)
• Russian: ме́дленно (ru) (médlenno)
• Sanskrit: शनैस् (sa) (śanais)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: dicciu

  Logudorese: ditzu

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: споро, пола́ко, (figuratively) ла̏гано

  Roman: sporo (sh), poláko (sh), (figuratively) lȁgano (sh)

• Slovak: pomaly
• Slovene: počási (sl)
• Spanish: lentamente (es), despacio (es)
• Swedish: sakta (sv)
• Sylheti: ꠟꠣꠄ ꠟꠣꠄ (lae lae)
• Tamil: மெதுவா (ta) (metuvā)
• Telugu: నిదానంగా (te) (nidānaṅgā), మెల్లగా (te) (mellagā)
• Thai: ช้าๆ (cháa-cháa)
• Turkish: yavaş (tr), yavaşça (tr), yavaş yavaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: пові́льно (povílʹno), без поспіху (bez pospixu)
• Urdu: آہستہ (ur) (āhistā)
• Vietnamese: chậm (vi)
• Volapük: nevifiko
• Walloon: doûçmint (wa), belotmint (wa), londjinnmint (wa), loyminoymint (wa)
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can