Slowlier vs more slowly

The correct phrase is 'more slowly.' 'Slowlier' is not a standard English word, and the comparative form of 'slow' should be formed with 'more' + the adverb 'slowly.'

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Slowlier

'Slowlier' is not a standard English word.

The correct comparative form of 'slow' is 'more slowly.'

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The construction site progresses, but just a little bit slowlier than the rest.
The more evident difference between the specific heats explains instead why, for example, the masses of water mitigate the climate: because of their high Cs they warm up and cool down slowlier than the other substances that form the environment around them.
For the next trial a lowlier instrument was chosen - a young man, so humble in appearance that he was coldly treated even by the professed friends of reform.
"Prime Duty" is considered one of the lowlier functions of the Corps, and Guy Gardner was sentenced to a month of such duty for one of his frequent rules infractions.

Alternatives:

more slowly

more slowly

This is the correct comparative form of 'slow.'

Use 'more slowly' when comparing the speed of an action or movement.

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I tried working more slowly once.
That means that iron-deprived bacteria reproduce more slowly.
The nervous system also works more slowly as they age.
Student pausing or reading more slowly.
We change ourselves much more slowly than we think.
This is what's really cool: it's aging more slowly.
Please speak more slowly - Yukkuri hanashite kudasai.
I believe we lost more slowly than the other side.
It will happen much more slowly to you.
But then it started again. Although, a bit more slowly.
The dreadful thing is, less poison kills you more slowly.
Please drink more slowly to maximize absorption of anti-oxidants.
My father died much more slowly.
Everything goes a little more slowly without you there.
Very often the higher chambers produced the better pieces, as they heated up more slowly.
The area's economy and population are both growing more slowly than the State of California overall.
Since humans breed more slowly than grephs, they are less diverse than the Dragons.
The inland Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets retreated more slowly than did the coastal glaciers.
Children affected by this disorder develop more slowly than normal and may display delayed speech and walking skills.
Since the late 1980s worldwide capacity has risen much more slowly, reaching 366 GW in 2005.

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