Word Meanings - SLOWLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.

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• RASHLY
  In a rush manner; with precipitation. He that doth anything rashly, must do it willingly; for he was free to deliberate or not. L'Estrange.
• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MODERATELY
  In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• BASTARDLY
  Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• NEARLY
  In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• IMMODERATELY
  In an immoderate manner; excessively.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• DASTARDLY
  Meanly timid; cowardly; base; as, a dastardly outrage.
• CURVILINEARLY
  In a curvilinear manner.