glacially
1
7.4
- adverb
- /ˈɡleɪʃəli/
:
lentamente
- "The state system moved glacially," she said.
For as fast as time passes, change can be glacially slow.
- For as fast as time passes, change can be glacially slow.
- I think you're not putting yourself into the shoes of the human in the world of glacially slow aliens.
Examples
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"Excellent," Thrawn said, his voice glacially calm.
Fiction book (1991) -
Nevertheless, the embracing of a national standard for U.S. arts education is progressing gradually; some would say glacially.
Academic text (1997) -
I shared the reality of being glacially slow with a running pal's friend.
Blog text (34) -
The wheels turn glacially slowly, but turning they are.
Blog text (30) -
The city was safe enough, populated mostly by academics here to study the glacially slow indigenous life forms.
Fiction book (2000) -
The mists were thick, and the ocean was glacially calm.
Fiction book (2000) -
Many New Orleans residents felt orphaned by the Bush administration's glacially slow response to the suffering caused by Katrina.
Academic text (2018) -
An isolated population may take a thousand years to speciate, and its transformation would therefore appear glacially slow if measured by the irrelevant scale of our personal lives.
Academic text (1992) -
They should move glacially, as an extra day's information causes forecasters to revise very slightly their image of the economy's bottlenecks twenty years down the road.
Blog text (22) -
The elevator seemed to be moving glacially.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
At a low speed without hurrying
Antonyms
How Fast
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Glacially comes from glacier, a 'river of ice' that moves very slowly, so glacially is often used to say something happens 'very slowly' or 'in a gradual way'.