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# slowly

«slowly» in Mova's school dictionary: **At a low speed, not fast: "Walk slowly."** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (slowly, more slowly, most slowly)

### meaning for a pupil

1) At a low speed, not fast: "Walk slowly." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#m1)

2) Over a long time, bit by bit: "The ice slowly melted." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, slowly describes slow change (rocks wear away slowly, plants grow slowly). In safety: walk slowly near pools and on wet floors; drive slowly near schools; eat slowly and chew well. Phrases: slowly but surely, slowly and carefully.

### examples

- The tortoise walked slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x1)
- Read the question slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x2)
- The snail moved slowly across the leaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x3)
- Walk slowly on the wet floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x4)
- Rocks wear away slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x5)
- Chew your food slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x6)
- Slowly, the sun went down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x7)
- Back away slowly from a strange dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x8)
- The two women walked very slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/#x9)

### note

"Slowly" describes how something is done; "slow" describes a thing: "a slow car drives slowly". Opposite: quickly. "Go slow" is also used informally.

### In the corpora

- [Inflation means prices rise over time, so the same pound buys less; if pay rises more slowly, families are worse off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/11/)
- [Newsreaders speak slowly and look serious about deaths to show respect for the people who died and their families.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/18/)
- [Counting letter by letter, slowly, beats guessing quickly, and you can show each step.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/29-who-you-are-being-wrong-and-learning/19/)
- [Pulling out that one bar and playing it slowly fixes it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/2/)
- [Deliberate practice means working on purpose on the parts you cannot do yet, slowly and carefully.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slowly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slowly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.