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Slightly vs Smally - What's the difference?

slightly | smally |

As adverbs the difference between slightly and smally

is that slightly is slenderly; delicately while smally is (rare) in a small way.

slightly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Slenderly; delicately.
    • He was slightly built, but tall.
  • To a small extent or degree.
    • He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter.

    Synonyms

    * (to a small extent or degree) a little, marginally, somewhat

    Antonyms

    * (to a small extent or degree) quite, very

    smally

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (rare) In a small way.
  • * 1890 , HM Factory Inspectorate, Annual report of the chief inspector of factories and workshops
    • The name of Worstead, a village some ten miles distant from the city, was, indeed, as its name may testify, the birthplace of an important branch of the trade in England; now it is a smally populated, little known spot...
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 28, author=Richard Ford, title=The Noise Is Killing Me, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself. }}