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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Middle English slowly , slowli , slouli , slowliche , from Old English slāwlīċe ("slowly; sluggishly"), equivalent to slow + -ly . Compare Old Norse slæliga , sljóliga .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- Rhymes: -əʊli
- (UK )
- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˈsləʊli/
- (Northumbria ) IPA (key): /ˈslaːli/
- (General American ) IPA (key): /ˈsloʊli/
- Hyphenation: slow‧ly
Adverb
[edit ]slowly (comparative slowlier or more slowly, superlative slowliest or most slowly)
- (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ドル trillion market brought the UK to the brink of a financial crisis", in CNN Business [1] , archived from the original on 16 May 2024:
- When bond yields rise slowly over time, it’s not a problem for pensions deploying LDI strategies, and actually helps their finances.
Synonyms
[edit ]- ponderously , sluggishly , with leaden wings (idiomatic, obsolete); See also Thesaurus:slowly
Antonyms
[edit ]Derived terms
[edit ]Related terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]at a slow pace
- Abkhaz: ашьшьыҳәа (aššəḥwa)
- Albanian: ngadalë (sq) , avash (sq)
- Gheg Albanian: kadal
- Amharic: በቀስታ (bäḳästa)
- Arabic: بِبُطْء (bi-buṭʔ)
- 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)
- Guarani:
- Hebrew: לאט (he) (le'át)
- Hindi: आहिस्ता (hi) (āhistā), धीरे (hi) (dhīre), धीरे-धीरे (hi) (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: њаӽә (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 English: late , lætlīċe
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: آهسته (fa) (âheste)
- Polish: powoli (pl) , wolno (pl) , pomału (pl) , nieśpiesznie (pl) , nieprędko (pl) , niemrawo (pl) , pomalutku (pl)
- Portuguese: devagar (pt) , lentamente (pt) , vagarosamente (pt)
- Romanian: încet (ro) , lent (ro) , domol (ro) , lentamente
- Russian: ме́дленно (ru) (médlenno)
- Sanskrit: शनैस् (sa) (śanais)
- Sardinian:
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: pomaly
- Slovene: počási (sl)
- Spanish: lentamente (es) , despacio (es) , con despacio , despacito (extra slowly)
- 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) , aheste aheste (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
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