Words that rhyme with airily
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alee
adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee" -
amorally
adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally, amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously] -
arbitrarily
adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy- nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way] -
aurally
adv 1: with regard to sound or the ear; "the new musical was visually and aurally appealing" -
bilaterally
adv 1: with the involvement of two parties or governments; "they worked out an agreement bilaterally" 2: so as to involve two sides or parts -
charily
adv 1: with great caution; warily -
cheerily
adv 1: in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly" [syn: pleasantly, cheerily, sunnily] -
chorally
adv 1: by a chorus; "chorally accompanied" -
contradictorily
adv 1: in a contradictory manner; "he argued contradictorily" -
contrarily
adv 1: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise] 2: contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary] -
customarily
adv 1: by custom; according to common practice; "children are custosby-the-waymarily expected to be seen but not heard" -
drearily
adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future" [syn: dismally, drearily] -
elementarily
adv 1: in an elementary manner -
extraordinarily
adv 1: extremely; "she was inordinately smart"; "it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate" [syn: inordinately, extraordinarily] -
federally
adv 1: by federal government; "it's federally regulated" -
fierily
adv 1: with passionate fervor; "both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book" [syn: fierily, fervently, fervidly] -
illiberally
adv 1: in a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally] -
immorally
adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally, amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously] -
laterally
adv 1: to or by or from the side; "such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin" 2: in a lateral direction or location; "the body is spindle- shaped and only slightly compressed laterally" -
liberally
adv 1: freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his stories liberally" 2: in a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities" [syn: liberally, munificently, generously] -
literally
adv 1: in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally" [ant: figuratively] 2: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War" -
merrily
adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily] -
militarily
adv 1: with respect to the military; "on a militarily significant scale" -
momentarily
adv 1: for an instant or moment; "we paused momentarily before proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch" [syn: momentarily, momently] 2: at any moment; "she will be with you momently" [syn: momentarily, momently] -
monaurally
adv 1: in a monaural manner; "the stimuli were presented monaurally" [syn: monaurally, to one ear, in one ear] [ant: binaurally, in both ears, to both ears] -
morally
adv 1: with respect to moral principles; "morally unjustified" 2: in a moral manner; "he acted morally under the circumstances" [syn: morally, virtuously] [ant: amorally, immorally] -
multilaterally
adv 1: in a multilateral manner;so as to affect many parties or governments; "they worked out an agreement unilaterally" [ant: one-sidedly, unilaterally] -
necessarily
adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: necessarily, needfully] [ant: unnecessarily] 2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs] 3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe" -
obligatorily
adv 1: in an obligatory manner; "this rule applies obligatorily" [ant: optionally] 2: in a manner that cannot be evaded; "the ministry considers that contributions to such a fund should be met from voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily levied." [syn: compulsorily, obligatorily, mandatorily] -
orally
adv 1: (of drugs) through the mouth rather than through injection; by_mouth; "he was administered the drug orally" 2: by spoken rather than written means; "these stories were transmitted by word of mouth" [syn: orally, by word of mouth] -
ordinarily
adv 1: under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: normally, usually, unremarkably, commonly, ordinarily] [ant: outstandingly, remarkably, unco, unusually] -
peremptorily
adv 1: in an imperative and commanding manner [syn: imperatively, peremptorily] -
perfunctorily
adv 1: in a set manner without serious attention; "they answered my letter pro forma"; "he kissed her cheek perfunctorily" [syn: perfunctorily, as a formality, pro forma] -
primarily
adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main] 2: of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter" [syn: primarily, in the first place] [ant: secondarily] -
rurally
adv 1: in a rural manner -
satisfactorily
adv 1: in a satisfactory manner [ant: unsatisfactorily] -
scarify
v 1: puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals; "The men in some African tribes scarify their faces" 2: scratch the surface of; "scarify seeds" 3: break up; "scarify soil" -
secondarily
adv 1: of secondary import; "secondarily affected" [ant: in the first place, primarily] -
solitarily
adv 1: in solitude; "a hermit chooses to live solitarily" -
spirally
adv 1: with spirals; "spirally fluted handles" -
statutorily
adv 1: according to statute; "placed statutorily under the council's supervision" -
summarily
adv 1: without delay; in a summary manner; "the suspected spy was summarily executed" -
temporally
adv 1: with regard to temporal order; "temporally processed" -
temporarily
adv 1: for a limited time only; not permanently; "he will work here temporarily"; "he was brought out of retirement temporarily"; "a power failure temporarily darkened the town" [ant: for good, permanently] -
thoroughly
adv 1: in an exhaustive manner; "we searched the files thoroughly" [syn: thoroughly, exhaustively] 2: completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly'); "he was soundly defeated"; "we beat him good" [syn: thoroughly, soundly, good] -
transitorily
adv 1: for a very brief time -
unilaterally
adv 1: in a unilateral manner; by means of one part or party; "they worked out an agreement unilaterally" [syn: unilaterally, one-sidedly] [ant: multilaterally] -
unnecessarily
adv 1: in an unnecessary manner; "they were unnecessarily rude" [ant: necessarily, needfully] 2: without any necessity; "this marathon would exhaust him unnecessarily" -
unsatisfactorily
adv 1: in an unsatisfactory manner; "He performed unsatisfactorily as a manager" [ant: satisfactorily] -
unwarily
adv 1: without heed or caution [ant: warily] -
verily
adv 1: in truth; certainly; "I verily think so"; "trust in the Lord...and verily thou shalt be fed"- Ps 37:3 -
voluntarily
adv 1: out of your own free will; "he voluntarily submitted to the fingerprinting" [ant: involuntarily] -
warily
adv 1: in a wary manner; "the sailor watched the sky warily" [ant: unwarily] -
wearily
adv 1: in a weary manner; "he walked around tiredly" [syn: tiredly, wearily] -
blearily
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collaterally
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complimentarily
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contemporarily
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corporally
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derogatorily
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dilatorily
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documentarily
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explanatorily
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extramurally
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florally
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fragmentarily
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hereditarily
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mercenarily
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monetarily
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predatorily
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rudimentarily
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sanitarily
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trilaterally
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unitarily
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virally
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wirily
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allee
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farrelly
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fairily
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sedentarily
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subsidiarily
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coralie
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plurally
See also airily definition and airily synonyms
