Words that rhyme with curtly

• absurdly 0
  adv 1: in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree; "an absurdly rich young woman"
• alertly 0
  adv 1: in mentally perceptive and responsive way; "she got through the day alertly, despite being on drugs"
• courtly 0
  adj 1: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, formal, stately]
• covertly 0
  adv 1: in a covert manner; "he did it covertly" [ant: overtly]
• curvaceously 0
  adv 1: in a curvaceous way; "his date was curvaceously beguiling" [syn: curvaceously, buxomly]
• cutely 0
  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]
• fitly 0
  adv 1: in an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed" [syn: appropriately, suitably, fittingly, befittingly, fitly] [ant: inappropriately, unsuitably]
• fleetly 0
  adv 1: in a swift manner; "she moved swiftly" [syn: swiftly, fleetly]
• hotly 0
  adv 1: in a heated manner; "`To say I am behind the strike is so much nonsense,' declared Mr Harvey heatedly"; "the children were arguing hotly" [syn: heatedly, hotly]
• motley 0
  adj 1: consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds; "an arrangement of assorted spring flowers"; "assorted sizes"; "miscellaneous accessories"; "a mixed program of baroque and contemporary music"; "a motley crew"; "sundry sciences commonly known as social"- I.A.Richards [syn: assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry(a)] 2: having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies" [syn: motley, calico, multicolor, multi-color, multicolour, multi-colour, multicolored, multi- colored, multicoloured, multi-coloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured] n 1: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley] 2: a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume) 3: a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England v 1: make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" [syn: vary, variegate, motley] 2: make motley; color with different colors [syn: motley, parti-color]
• mutely 0
  adv 1: without speaking; "he sat mutely next to her" [syn: mutely, wordlessly, silently, taciturnly]
• neatly 0
  adv 1: with neatness; "she put the slippers under the bed neatly"
• nightly 0
  adv 1: at the end of each day; "she checks on her roses nightly" [syn: nightly, every night] adj 1: happening every night; "nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m."
• overtly 0
  adv 1: in an overt manner; "he did it overtly" [ant: covertly]
• partly 0
  adv 1: in part; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed" [syn: partially, partly, part] [ant: all, altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole, wholly]
• pertly 0
  adv 1: in an impudent or impertinent manner; "a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently" [syn: impertinently, saucily, pertly, freshly, impudently]
• portly 0
  adj 1: euphemisms for `fat'; "men are portly and women are stout" [syn: portly, stout]
• promptly 0
  adv 1: with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!" [syn: promptly, quickly, quick] 2: in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly" [syn: promptly, readily, pronto] 3: at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence); "he promptly forgot the address" [syn: promptly, right away]
• rightly 0
  adv 1: with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time" [syn: rightly, justly, justifiedly] [ant: unjustly]
• shortly 0
  adv 1: for a short time; "he was at the airport shortly before she was expected to arrive" 2: in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long" [syn: soon, shortly, presently, before long] 3: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" [syn: curtly, short, shortly] 4: in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly" [syn: concisely, briefly, shortly, in brief, in short] 5: at a short distance; "the hem fell shortly below her knees"
• slightly 0
  adv 1: to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other" [syn: slightly, somewhat, more or less] 2: in a slim or slender manner; "a slenderly built woman"; "slightly built" [syn: slenderly, slimly, slightly]
• smartly 0
  adv 1: in a clever manner; "they were cleverly arranged"; "a smartly managed business" [syn: cleverly, smartly] 2: with vigor; in a vigorous manner; "he defended his ideas vigorously" [syn: vigorously, smartly] 3: in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed" [syn: smartly, modishly, sprucely]
• sprightly 0
  adj 1: full of spirit and vitality; "a sprightly young girl"; "a sprightly dance"
• stately 0
  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]
• stoutly 0
  adv 1: in a resolute manner; "he was stoutly replying to his critics"
• strictly 0
  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]
• subtly 0
  adv 1: in a subtle manner; "late nineteenth-century French opera at its most beautiful, subtly romantic with a twilight melancholy"
• sweetly 0
  adv 1: in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other" [syn: sweetly, sweet]
• tartly 0
  adv 1: in a tart manner; "`Never mind your immortal soul,' she said tartly"
• tautly 0
  adv 1: in a taut manner; "the rope was tautly stretched"
• thirdly 0
  adv 1: in the third place; "third we must consider unemployment" [syn: third, thirdly]
• tightly 0
  adv 1: in a tight or constricted manner; "a tightly packed pub" 2: securely fixed or fastened; "the window was tightly sealed"
• berkeley 0
  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
• clerkly 0
• raptly 0
• birtley 0
• kirtley 0
• wortley 0

See also curtly definition and curtly synonyms