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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slowly, slow, easy, tardilyadverb

    without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')

    "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I can see the sights"

  2. lento, slowlyadverb

    in music

    "Play this lento, please"

Wiktionary

  1. slowlyadverb

    At a slow pace

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Slowlyadverb

    Etymology: from slow.

    The gnome rejoicing bears her gift away,
    Spreads his black wings, and slowly mounts to day. Alexander Pope.

    The poor remnant of human seed peopled their country again slowly, by little and little. Francis Bacon.

    Our fathers bent their baneful industry
    To check a monarchy that slowly grew;
    But did not France or Holland’s fate forsee,
    Whose rising pow’r to swift dominion flew. Dryden.

    We oft our slowly growing works impart,
    While images reflect from art to art. Alexander Pope.

    The chapel of St. Laurence advances so very slowly, that ’tis not impossible but the family of Medicis may be extinct before their burial place is finished. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

Wikipedia

  1. Slowly

    Slowly is a 1954 song by Webb Pierce, written by Pierce and Nashville songwriter Tommy Hill (brother of singer Goldie Hill). The song was one of Pierce's more successful singles, spending seventeen weeks at the top of the Country and Western Best Sellers lists and a total of thirty-six weeks in the chart. Beyond its success as a song, "Slowly" was hugely influential in the history of country music, in that it was among the first (and certainly the most successful to date) songs to feature a pedal steel guitar. The song's iconic intro, played by Bud Isaacs, was said to have sent legions of lap steel guitar players scurrying to their closets for wire coat hangers, with which they attempted to modify their existing instruments to get the pitch shifting effect achieved by Isaacs.

ChatGPT

  1. slowly

    Slowly is an adverb that describes an action or process happening at a low speed or rate, characterized by a lack of quickness or swiftness. It suggests a gradual or leisurely pace.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slowlyadverb

    in a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly

Wikidata

  1. Slowly

    Slowly is an EP by UK musician Tom Fox.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'slowly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1264

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'slowly' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2729

  3. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'slowly' in Adverbs Frequency: #121

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slowly in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slowly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of slowly in a Sentence

  1. Brandon Hyde:

    That’s great news for everybody, it means we’re slowly but surely getting back to normal, which is a great feeling.

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The boa digests slowly. The habit digests slowly. (Le boa digère lentement. - L’habitude digère lentement.)

  3. Matthew Metcalf:

    Green iguanas showed up in South Florida, in Miami-Dade County around 1960, since then, theyve kind of slowly grown.

  4. Joseph Varon:

    Unfortunately, the heartbeat of the baby has actually stopped, we were able to safely transport Nick Torres to Nick Torres home, where Nick Torres remained for a couple of hours and then Nick Torres heart rate slowly went down until it stopped.

  5. Debi Krezel:

    I don’t think it’s fair to us or our children, what are they going to take from us next ? We are slowly chipping away the values and beliefs and traditions that( the nation) was created upon.

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