Words that rhyme with darkly

  • biweekly
    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)
  • bleakly
    adv 1: without hope; "he wondered bleakly"
  • exactly
    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]
  • hardly
    adv 1: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce] 2: almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" [syn: hardly, scarcely]
  • meekly
    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]
  • obliquely
    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]
  • opaquely
    adv 1: in an opaque manner; "he referred opaquely to her recent past"
  • partly
    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]
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • sharply
    adv 1: in an aggressive manner; "she was being sharply questioned" [syn: aggressively, sharply] 2: in a well delineated manner; "the new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined" [syn: sharply, crisply] 3: changing suddenly in direction and degree; "the road twists sharply after the light"; "turn sharp left here"; "the visor was acutely peaked"; "her shoes had acutely pointed toes" [syn: sharply, sharp, acutely] 4: very suddenly and to a great degree; "conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate"; "prices rose sharply" [syn: precipitously, sharply]
  • 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]
  • slackly
    adv 1: in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" [syn: loosely, slackly]
  • sleekly
    adv 1: in a sleek glossy manner; "the wet road was shining sleekly"
  • slickly
    adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]
  • smartly
    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]
  • starkly
    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"
  • 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]
  • treacly
    adj 1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly]
  • uniquely
    adv 1: so as to be unique; "he could determine uniquely the properties of the compound" [syn: uniquely, unambiguously]
  • weakly
    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]
  • weekly
    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)
  • berkeley
    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
  • sparkly
    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]
  • barkley
    n 1: United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956) [syn: Barkley, Alben Barkley, Alben William Barkley]
  • blackly
  • chicly
  • clerkly
  • crackly
  • freckly
  • ritualistically
  • hackly
  • barclay
  • buckley
  • markley
  • weekley
  • barkeley
  • tickly

See also darkly definition and darkly synonyms