SLOWLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slowly mean? 

• SLOWLY (adverb)
  The adverb SLOWLY has 2 senses:

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

2. in music

  Familiarity information: SLOWLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOWLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without speed ('slow' is sometimes used informally for 'slowly')

Synonyms:

easy; slow; slowly; tardily

Context example:

please go slow so I can see the sights

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Antonym:

quickly (with speed)

Pertainym:

slow (not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In music

Synonyms:

lento; slowly

Context example:

Play this lento, please

Pertainym:

slow (at a slow tempo)

 Context examples 

“When a man says he's willin',” said Mr. Barkis, turning his glance slowly on me again, “it's as much as to say, that man's a-waitin' for a answer.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then he began slowly to mount the street, pausing every step or two and putting his hand to his brow like a man in mental perplexity.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He proceeded very slowly and cautiously, an inch at a time.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9) Moving or speaking so slowly that other people could have noticed?

(PHQ-9 - Moving or Speaking Slowly or the Opposite being Fidgety or Restless, NCI Thesaurus)

A slowly hydrolyzed muscarinic agonist with no nicotinic effects.

(Pilocarpine Hydrochloride, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

But still the door continued slowly to open, and only the Count's body stood in the gap.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It usually presents as a slowly growing mass and it frequently metastasizes to other anatomic sites.

(Alveolar soft part sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A WHO grade I, relatively circumscribed, slowly growing, often cystic astrocytoma occurring in children and young adults.

(Pilocytic Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Once he gained his feet, but his legs were too weak to sustain him, and he slowly wilted and sank back into the snow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The little book was brought slowly out and laid down before him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)