SLOWLY Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

slowly

adverb

ˈslō-lē

Definition of slowly

as in cautiously

at a pace that is less than usual, desirable, or expected walked slowly toward the ringing phone

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Recent Examples of slowly Caltrans has been slowly removing those 1960s-era signs with the letter studded with reflective dots and replacing them with newer ones. — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 That means that the money being dispersed is moving more slowly, York said. — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 6 Aug. 2026 Video of the crash shows that after the driver in front of her pulled out of the turn pocket and into the shopping center, Kaur slowly followed, without stopping. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026 This delay is due mainly to the attachment of alpha-gal to fats, which are digested more slowly than proteins. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for slowly

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Barcelona is approaching the complex transfer cautiously, expecting Rodri to demonstrate a strong desire to move.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Space Exploration Technologies posted its first quarterly report since going public, leaving analysts cautiously optimistic on the stock even as spending concerns sent shares lower.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of cautiously

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Two weeks earlier, over the first weekend of July, a slow-moving system broke a brutal heat wave with wind gusts near 80 mph and knocked out power to nearly 300,000 New Jersey customers.

— Ravi S. Bhalla, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
But Ukraine has a layered array of defenses against the relatively slow-flying ones, and its counter-drone expertise has been in demand following the US-Iran war.

— Nathan Hodge, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of slow

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After securing Swift in its grasp, LINK will carefully fire its three ion thrusters, aiming to boost the observatory back to its original orbit over the course of two to three months.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
The Voyagers have been skirting this dismal fate for years now, with NASA engineers carefully monitoring each spacecraft’s power supplies and plotting out when to turn off individual instruments to keep the missions going as long as possible.

— Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

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