Words that rhyme with cosmetically

  • aesthetically
    adv 1: in a tasteful way; "this building is aesthetically very pleasing" [syn: aesthetically, esthetically]
  • alphabetically
    adv 1: in alphabetical order; "the list was arranged alphabetically"
  • antithetically
    adv 1: with antithesis; in an antithetical manner
  • apathetically
    adv 1: in an apathetic manner; "she behaves apathetically these days"
  • apologetically
    adv 1: in an apologetic manner; "he spoke apologetically about his past"
  • arithmetically
    adv 1: with respect to arithmetic; "this problem is arithmetically easy"
  • ascetically
    adv 1: in an ascetic manner; "she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself"
  • empathetically
    adv 1: in a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him sympathetically" [syn: sympathetically, empathetically] [ant: unsympathetically]
  • energetically
    adv 1: in an energetic manner
  • frenetically
    adv 1: in a very agitated manner; as if possessed by an evil spirit [syn: demoniacally, frenetically]
  • genetically
    adv 1: by genetic mechanisms; "genetically passed down talents"
  • hermetically
    adv 1: in an airtight manner; "this bag is hermetically sealed"
  • hypocritically
    adv 1: in a hypocritical manner; "he behaved hypocritically by praying piously when people were watching"
  • hypothetically
    adv 1: by hypothesis
  • kinaesthetically
    adv 1: in a kinesthetic manner; by means of kinesthesia; "he can perceive shapes kinesthetically" [syn: kinesthetically, kinaesthetically]
  • magnetically
    adv 1: by the use of magnetism; "magnetically contaminated material" 2: as if by magnetism; "he was magnetically attracted to her"
  • parasitically
    adv 1: in a parasitic manner
  • parenthetically
    adv 1: in a parenthetical manner; "he added parenthetically that he would not attend the wedding ceremony"
  • pathetically
    adv 1: in a manner arousing sympathy and compassion; "the sick child cried pathetically" [syn: pathetically, pitiably] 2: arousing scornful pity; "they had pathetically little money"; "it was pathetically bad"
  • phonetically
    adv 1: by phonetics; "phonetically realized"
  • poetically
    adv 1: in a poetic manner; "poetically expressed"
  • politically
    adv 1: with regard to social relationships involving authority; "politically correct clothing" 2: with regard to government; "politically organized units"
  • prickly
    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]
  • prophetically
    adv 1: in a prophetic manner; "he prophetically anticipated the disaster"
  • quickly
    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]
  • sickly
    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]
  • slickly
    adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]
  • strictly
    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]
  • sympathetically
    adv 1: with respect to the sympathetic nervous system; "the stimulus acted sympathetically" 2: in a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him sympathetically" [syn: sympathetically, empathetically] [ant: unsympathetically]
  • synthetically
    adv 1: by synthesis; in a synthetic manner; "some of these drugs have been derived from opium and others have been produced synthetically"
  • theoretically
    adv 1: in theory; according to the assumed facts; "on paper the candidate seems promising" 2: in a theoretical manner; "he worked the problem out theoretically" [ant: by trial and error, empirically, through empirical observation]
  • thickly
    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]
  • uncritically
    adv 1: in an uncritical manner; "he accepted her decisions uncritically" [ant: critically]
  • esthetically
    adv 1: in a tasteful way; "this building is aesthetically very pleasing" [syn: aesthetically, esthetically]
  • antipathetically
  • aphetically
  • athletically
  • diacritically
  • dietetically
  • electromagnetically
  • geopolitically
  • heretically
  • hydrolytically
  • hypercritically
  • mimetically
  • ontogenetically
  • psychoanalytically
  • unapologetically

See also cosmetically definition