Words that rhyme with acerbically

adv 1: without using a microscope; "The tubes were examined macroscopically"

adv 1: by using a microscope; so as to be visible only with a microscope; as seen with a microscope; "the blood was examined microscopically"; "the seeds were microscopically small" 2: as if by using a microscope; with extreme precision and attention to detail; in minute detail; "every manuscript was edited microscopically"

adv 1: in a philanthropic manner

adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish] 2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

adv 1: with rapid movements; "he works quickly" [syn: quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace] [ant: easy, slow, slowly, tardily] 2: with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!" [syn: promptly, quickly, quick] 3: without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine" [syn: cursorily, quickly]

adj 1: unhealthy looking [syn: sallow, sickly] 2: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]

adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]

adv 1: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business" [syn: strictly, purely] 2: in a stringent manner; "the laws are stringently enforced"; "stringently controlled" [syn: strictly, stringently] 3: in a rigorous manner; "he had been trained rigorously by the monks" [syn: rigorously, strictly]

adv 1: in a telescopic manner; "each of the four legs contains a simple screw jack with a thrust bearing that is operated telescopically inside of two tubes"

adv 1: spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue; "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly" 2: in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area" [syn: densely, thickly] [ant: thinly] 3: with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn: thickly, thick] [ant: thin, thinly] 4: with thickness; in a thick manner; "spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt" [ant: lightly, thinly] 5: in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn: thick, thickly]

adv 1: in a tropical manner; "it was tropically hot in the greenhouse"