Words that rhyme with blackly

adv 1: with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably, capably] [ant: displaying incompetence, incompetently]

adv 1: in abstract terms [ant: concretely]

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"

adv 1: with competence; in a competent capable manner; "they worked competently" [syn: competently, aptly, ably, capably] [ant: displaying incompetence, incompetently]

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]

adv 1: twice a week; "he called home semiweekly" [syn: semiweekly, biweekly] 2: every two weeks; "he visited his cousins fortnightly" [syn: fortnightly, biweekly] adj 1: occurring every two weeks [syn: fortnightly, biweekly] 2: occurring twice a week [syn: semiweekly, biweekly] n 1: a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year)

adv 1: without hope; "he wondered bleakly"

adv 1: without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the mist" [syn: darkly, in darkness] 2: in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at her"

adv 1: in a drab manner; "she dresses drably"

adv 1: indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt" [syn: precisely, exactly, just] 2: just as it should be; "`Precisely, my lord,' he said" [syn: precisely, exactly, on the nose, on the dot, on the button] 3: in a precise manner; "she always expressed herself precisely" [syn: precisely, incisively, exactly] [ant: imprecisely, inexactly]

adv 1: in an unqualified manner; "he flatly denied the charges" [syn: flatly, categorically, unconditionally]

adv 1: in a willing manner; "this was gladly agreed to"; "I would fain do it" [syn: gladly, lief, fain]

adv 1: to an extraordinary extent or degree; "he improved greatly"

adv 1: by accident; "betrayed by a word haply overheard" [syn: haply, by chance, by luck]

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]

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]

adv 1: in a submissive or spiritless manner; "meekly bowed to his wishes" 2: in a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head" [syn: humbly, meekly]

adv 1: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely] 2: at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face" [syn: obliquely, aslant, athwart]

adv 1: in an opaque manner; "he referred opaquely to her recent past"

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]

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]

adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"

adj 1: having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape; "a slim waist and shapely legs" [ant: unshapely]

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: in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" [syn: loosely, slackly]

adv 1: in a sleek glossy manner; "the wet road was shining sleekly"

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

adv 1: in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar" [syn: gravely, soberly, staidly]

adv 1: in a stark manner; "He was starkly unable to achieve coherence" 2: in sharp outline or contrast; "the black walls rose starkly from the snow" 3: in a blunt manner; "in starkly realistic terms"

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]

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"

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]

adj 1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly]

adv 1: so as to be unique; "he could determine uniquely the properties of the compound" [syn: uniquely, unambiguously]

adv 1: in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: vaguely, mistily]

adv 1: in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; "weakly agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly attracted to her" [ant: strongly] adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly]

adv 1: without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly" [syn: hebdomadally, weekly, every week, each week] adj 1: of or occurring every seven days; "a weekly visit"; "weekly paper" [syn: weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary] n 1: a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year)

n 1: Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753) [syn: Berkeley, Bishop Berkeley, George Berkeley] 2: a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley

adj 1: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly] 2: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly]

n 1: United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956) [syn: Barkley, Alben Barkley, Alben William Barkley]