Words that rhyme with ably

• actually 0
  adv 1: in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn: actually, really] 2: used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly; "you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out"; "she actually spoke Latin"; "they thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets"; "people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous" [syn: actually, in reality] 3: at the present moment; "the transmission screen shows the picture that is actually on the air" 4: as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; "actually, we all help clear up after a meal"; "actually, I haven't seen the film"; "I'm not all that surprised actually"; "she hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually"
• agreeably 0
  adv 1: in an enjoyable manner; "we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon" [syn: pleasantly, agreeably, enjoyably] [ant: disagreeably, unpleasantly]
• allowably 0
  adv 1: in a permissible manner [syn: permissibly, allowably] [ant: impermissibly]
• amiably 0
  adv 1: in an affable manner; "`Come and visit me,' he said amiably" [syn: affably, amiably, genially]
• appreciably 0
  adv 1: to a noticeable degree; "they weather was appreciably colder"
• aptly 0
  adv 1: with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably, capably] [ant: displaying incompetence, incompetently]
• arguably 0
  adv 1: as can be shown by argument; "she is arguably the best"
• badly 0
  adv 1: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill" [syn: badly, severely, gravely, seriously] 2: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill-conceived plan" [syn: ill, badly, poorly] [ant: good, well] 3: evilly or wickedly; "treated his parents badly"; "to steal is to act badly" 4: in a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room" [syn: badly, mischievously, naughtily] 5: with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly'); "the injury hurt badly"; "the buildings were badly shaken"; "it hurts bad"; "we need water bad" [syn: badly, bad] 6: very much; strongly; "I wanted it badly enough to work hard for it"; "the cables had sagged badly"; "they were badly in need of help"; "he wants a bicycle so bad he can taste it" [syn: badly, bad] 7: without skill or in a displeasing manner; "she writes badly"; "I think he paints very badly" [ant: well] 8: in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage; "the venture turned out badly for the investors"; "angry that the case was settled disadvantageously for them" [syn: badly, disadvantageously] [ant: advantageously, well] 9: unfavorably or with disapproval; "tried not to speak ill of the dead"; "thought badly of him for his lack of concern" [syn: ill, badly] [ant: well] 10: with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display; "they took their defeat badly"; "took her father's death badly"; "conducted himself very badly at the time of the earthquake" [ant: well]
• bubbly 0
  adj 1: emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation; "bubbling champagne"; "foamy (or frothy) beer" [syn: bubbling, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, effervescing, spumy] 2: full of or showing high spirits; "bright bubbly children"; "a bubbly personality" n 1: a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there [syn: champagne, bubbly]
• capably 0
  adv 1: with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably, capably] [ant: displaying incompetence, incompetently]
• cruelly 0
  adv 1: excessively; "a cruelly bitter winter" 2: with cruelty; "he treated his students cruelly"
• culpably 0
  adv 1: in a manner or to a degree deserving blame or censure [syn: reprehensibly, culpably]
• demurely 0
  adv 1: in a demure manner; "the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a quick side-glance at her"
• disagreeably 0
  adv 1: in a disagreeable manner; "`I took no harm from the journey, thank you,' she said disagreeably" [ant: agreeably, enjoyably, pleasantly]
• doubly 0
  adv 1: to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice] 2: in a twofold manner; "he was doubly wrong" [syn: doubly, in two ways]
• dourly 0
  adv 1: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly" [syn: dourly, sullenly, glumly]
• drably 0
  adv 1: in a drab manner; "she dresses drably"
• enjoyably 0
  adv 1: in an enjoyable manner; "we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon" [syn: pleasantly, agreeably, enjoyably] [ant: disagreeably, unpleasantly]
• enviably 0
  adv 1: in an enviable manner; "she was enviably fluent in French"
• feebly 0
  adv 1: in a faint and feeble manner; "the lighthouse, flashing feebly against the sleet-blurred, rocky backdrop of the coast of north west Norway" 2: in a halting and feeble manner; "reform, in fact, is, rather feebly, on the win"
• flatly 0
  adv 1: in an unqualified manner; "he flatly denied the charges" [syn: flatly, categorically, unconditionally]
• gladly 0
  adv 1: in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it" [syn: gladly, lief, fain]
• glibly 0
  adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]
• greatly 0
  adv 1: to an extraordinary extent or degree; "he improved greatly"
• haply 0
  adv 1: by accident; "betrayed by a word haply overheard" [syn: haply, by chance, by luck]
• identifiably 0
  adv 1: in an identifiable manner; "they were identifiably different"
• impalpably 0
  adv 1: not substantially; lacking substantial expression or fullness [syn: insubstantially, impalpably]
• improbably 0
  adv 1: not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains" [syn: incredibly, improbably, implausibly, unbelievably] [ant: believably, credibly, plausibly, probably]
• indescribably 0
  adv 1: to an inexpressible degree; "she was looking very young tonight, and, as usual, indescribably beautiful, in a simple strapless dress of a green and white silky cotton" [syn: ineffably, indescribably, unutterably, unspeakably]
• inescapably 0
  adv 1: by necessity; "the situation slid inescapably toward disaster " [syn: inescapably, ineluctably, inevitably, unavoidably]
• insatiably 0
  adv 1: to an insatiable degree; "she was insatiably hungry" [syn: insatiably, unsatiably] 2: in an insatiable manner; with persistence but without satisfaction; "he clawed insatiably at the traditional precepts" [syn: insatiably, unsatiably]
• invariably 0
  adv 1: without variation or change, in every case; "constantly kind and gracious"; "he always arrives on time" [syn: constantly, invariably, always]
• justifiably 0
  adv 1: with good reason; "he is justifiably bitter" [ant: inexcusably, unjustifiably]
• lately 0
  adv 1: in the recent past; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also" [syn: recently, late, lately, of late, latterly]
• madly 0
  adv 1: in an uncontrolled manner; "she fought back madly" [syn: madly, frantically] 2: in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" [syn: insanely, crazily, dementedly, madly] [ant: sanely] 3: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly]
• palpably 0
  adv 1: so as to be palpable; "she was palpably nervous"
• pebbly 0
  adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]
• pitiably 0
  adv 1: in a manner arousing sympathy and compassion; "the sick child cried pathetically" [syn: pathetically, pitiably]
• probably 0
  adv 1: with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war" [syn: probably, likely, in all likelihood, in all probability, belike] 2: easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election" [syn: credibly, believably, plausibly, probably] [ant: implausibly, improbably, incredibly, unbelievably]
• sadly 0
  adv 1: in an unfortunate way; "sadly he died before he could see his grandchild" [syn: sadly, unhappily] [ant: happily] 2: with sadness; in a sad manner; "`She died last night,' he said sadly" 3: in an unfortunate or deplorable manner; "he was sadly neglected"; "it was woefully inadequate" [syn: deplorably, lamentably, sadly, woefully]
• scraggly 0
  adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"
• shapely 0
  adj 1: having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs" [ant: unshapely]
• soberly 0
  adv 1: in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar" [syn: gravely, soberly, staidly]
• sourly 0
  adv 1: in a sour manner; "he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers"
• stably 0
  adv 1: in a stable solid fixed manner; "the boulder was balanced stably at the edge of the canyon" 2: in a stable unchanging manner; "the death rate in Russia has been stably high"
• staidly 0
  adv 1: in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar" [syn: gravely, soberly, staidly]
• stately 0
  adj 1: impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: baronial, imposing, noble, stately] 2: of size and dignity suggestive of a statue [syn: stately, statuesque] 3: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, formal, stately]
• straggly 0
  adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly] 2: growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"
• stubbly 0
  adj 1: having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin" [syn: bestubbled, stubbled, stubbly]
• surely 0
  adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]
• unarguably 0
  adv 1: in an unarguable and undisputed manner; "you write as if this fact whilst inarguably forever condemning me to the ranks of Bohemianism nevertheless earned for me the right of entry into any company" [syn: unarguably, undisputedly]
• undeniably 0
  adv 1: to an undeniable degree or in an undeniable manner; "she is undeniably the most gifted student in the class"
• unreliably 0
  adv 1: in an unfaithful undependable unreliable manner [syn: unfaithfully, undependably, unreliably] [ant: dependably, faithfully, reliably]
• vaguely 0
  adv 1: in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: vaguely, mistily]
• variably 0
  adv 1: with variation; in a variable manner or to a variable degree; "it will be variably cloudy"
• wobbly 0
  adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky] n 1: a member of the Industrial Workers of the World
• nubbly 0
  adj 1: of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: homespun(p), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy]
• blackly 0
• certifiably 0
• choppily 0
• crackly 0
• dapperly 0
• dimply 0
• direly 0
• fatly 0
• impermeably 0
• inappreciably 0
• inarguably 0
• incapably 0
• inexpiably 0
• invaluably 0
• irremediably 0
• raptly 0
• snappily 0
• trebly 0
• tribally 0
• unstably 0
• unstoppably 0
• valuably 0
• verifiably 0
• viably 0
• hackly 0
• rattly 0
• waggly 0
• blea 0
• sibley 0

See also ably definition and ably synonyms