Words that rhyme with brutally

  • accurately
    adv 1: with few mistakes; "he works very accurately" [ant: inaccurately] 2: strictly correctly; "repeated the order accurately"
  • adequately
    adv 1: in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree; "he was adequately prepared" [ant: inadequately]
  • affectionately
    adv 1: with affection; "she loved him dearly"; "he treats her affectionately" [syn: dearly, affectionately, dear]
  • alee
    adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
  • alternately
    adv 1: in an alternating sequence or position; "They were deglycerolized by alternately centrifuging and mixing"; "he planted fir and pine trees alternately"
  • appropriately
    adv 1: in an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed" [syn: appropriately, suitably, fittingly, befittingly, fitly] [ant: inappropriately, unsuitably]
  • approximately
    adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so]
  • articulately
    adv 1: with eloquence; "he expressed his ideas eloquently" [syn: eloquently, articulately] [ant: inarticulately, ineloquently] 2: in an articulate manner; "he argued articulately for his plan" [syn: articulately, eloquently] [ant: inarticulately]
  • compassionately
    adv 1: in a compassionate manner; "the nurse looked at him pityingly" [syn: pityingly, compassionately]
  • considerately
    adv 1: in a considerate manner; "they considerately withdrew" [ant: inconsiderately]
  • correctly
    adv 1: in an accurate manner; "the flower had been correctly depicted by his son"; "he guessed right" [syn: correctly, right, aright] [ant: incorrectly, wrong, wrongly]
  • corruptly
    adv 1: in a corrupt manner [syn: corruptly, corruptedly]
  • courtly
    adj 1: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, formal, stately]
  • covertly
    adv 1: in a covert manner; "he did it covertly" [ant: overtly]
  • cutely
    adv 1: in an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure" [syn: cunningly, cutely]
  • daughterly
    adj 1: befitting a daughter; "daughterly affection"
  • definitely
    adv 1: without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably, emphatically, definitely, in spades, by all odds]
  • deliberately
    adv 1: with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn: intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely, advisedly, by choice, by design] [ant: accidentally, by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly, unintentionally] 2: in a deliberate unhurried manner; "she was working deliberately" [syn: measuredly, deliberately]
  • delicately
    adv 1: in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body" [syn: finely, fine, delicately, exquisitely]
  • desolately
    adv 1: in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects [syn: desolately, disconsolately]
  • desperately
    adv 1: with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash" [syn: urgently, desperately] 2: in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother"
  • devoutly
    adv 1: in a devout and pious manner; "she was devoutly Catholic" [syn: devoutly, piously]
  • digitally
    adv 1: by means of the fingers; "the exam was carried out digitally" 2: in terms of integers; "the time was digitally displayed"
  • directly
    adv 1: without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office" [syn: directly, straight, direct] 2: without anyone or anything intervening; "these two factors are directly related"; "he was directly responsible"; "measured the physical properties directly" 3: without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot] 4: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight] [ant: indirectly]
  • dirtily
    adv 1: in a sordid manner; "as dirtily drunk as usual" 2: in a filthy unclean manner; "a dirtily dressed camel driver" [syn: dirtily, filthily]
  • disconsolately
    adv 1: in grief-stricken loneliness; without comforting circumstances or prospects [syn: desolately, disconsolately]
  • dispassionately
    adv 1: in an impartially dispassionate manner; "although he was looking at the other girl, he did so dispassionately"
  • distinctly
    adv 1: clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment; "it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself in his situation" [syn: distinctly, clearly] 2: in a distinct and distinguishable manner; "the subtleties of this distinctly British occasion" 3: to a distinct degree; "urbanization in Spain is distinctly correlated with a fall in reproductive rate"
  • fluently
    adv 1: in a fluent manner; "she speaks French fluently"
  • haughtily
    adv 1: in a haughty manner; "he peered haughtily down his nose"
  • mightily
    adv 1: powerfully or vigorously; "he strove mightily to achieve a better position in life" 2: (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; "the baby is mighty cute"; "he's mighty tired"; "it is powerful humid"; "that boy is powerful big now"; "they have a right nice place"; "they rejoiced mightily" [syn: mighty, mightily, powerful, right]
  • mortally
    adv 1: in such a manner that death ensues (also in reference to hatred, jealousy, fear, etc.); "a being of whom the forest Indians are said to be mortally afraid, with a hoof shaped like the heel of a bottle"
  • naughtily
    adv 1: 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]
  • quarterly
    adv 1: in diagonally opposed quarters of an escutcheon; "two coats of arms borne quarterly" 2: in three month intervals; "interest is compounded quarterly" [syn: quarterly, every quarter] adj 1: of or relating to or consisting of a quarter; "quarterly report" n 1: a periodical that is published every quarter (or four issues per year)
  • snootily
    adv 1: in a snobbish manner; "they snobbishly excluded their less wealthy friends from the party" [syn: snobbishly, snootily, uppishly]
  • subtly
    adv 1: in a subtle manner; "late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy"
  • totally
    adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially, partly]
  • utterly
    adv 1: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead]
  • vitally
    adv 1: to a vital degree; "this is vitally important"
  • appositely
  • capitally
  • compositely
  • congenitally
  • consummately
  • corporately
  • degenerately
  • disparately
  • flightily
  • genitally
  • immortally
  • sportily
  • throatily
  • allee

See also brutally definition and brutally synonyms