Slightly vs Slowly - What's the difference?
slightly | slowly |
Slenderly; delicately.
To a small extent or degree.
At a slow pace.
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As adverbs the difference between slightly and slowly
is that slightly is slenderly; delicately while slowly is at a slow pace.slightly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He was slightly built, but tall.
- He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter.
Synonyms
* (to a small extent or degree) a little, marginally, somewhatAntonyms
* (to a small extent or degree) quite, veryslowly
English
Adverb
(en-adv)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}