slowlier
slowlier is the comparative form of slowly.
Meaning of slowly
Adverb
slowly (comparative slowlier or more slowly, superlative slowliest or most slowly)
- At a slow pace.
- Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- ponderously, sluggishly, with leaden wings, gradually, litherly, tardily
Questions about slowlier
- What is slowlier the comparative form of?
- Slowlier is the comparative form of slowly.
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