Synonyms for slowly
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1. slowlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   quickly

2. slowlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   quickly

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

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"

   Synonyms:
   easily, tardily, behind, soft, easy, lento, late, belatedly, slow

   Antonyms:
   rapidly, speedily, quickly, chop-chop, apace

2. lento, slowlyadverb

   in music

   "Play this lento, please"

   Synonyms:
   easy, tardily, slow, lento

   Antonyms:
   apace, speedily, quickly, chop-chop, rapidly

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1. despacito

   Submitted by rinat on August 11, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "slowly":

   slow, sluggishly, gradually, gently, softly, easy, lenta, progressively

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How to use slowly in a sentence?

1. John Kerry:

   That gap is slowly being filled, we are working to sign up additional countries. NATO member countries are close to meeting the troop levels.

2. David Clohessy:

   Those who fear women deacons, or favor them, should remember how slowly Francis moves, any fear or hope that action might be taken soon should be tempered with that reality.

3. Marthaline Sweet:

   We don't have a good home, we have no food and we must beg other people for help, we are really suffering - we are slowly dying.

4. Tony Coalson:

   You just slowly start to lift up, very, very slowly, and people knew, 'Well, if we can't get in, we're certainly not gonna be able to get on, because this aircraft, I think, is takin' off' -- which it was.

5. Scott C. Holstad:

   She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death.