Words that rhyme with diastole

• abnormally 0
  adv 1: in an abnormal manner; "they were behaving abnormally"; "his blood pressure was abnormally low"
• abysmally 0
  adv 1: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn: terribly, atrociously, awfully, abominably, abysmally, rottenly]
• accidentally 0
  adv 1: without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [syn: by chance, accidentally, circumstantially, unexpectedly] [ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely] 2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally] 3: without intention; in an unintentional manner; "she hit him unintentionally" [syn: unintentionally, accidentally] [ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely]
• alee 0
  adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
• anomaly 0
  n 1: deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule [syn: anomaly, anomalousness] 2: a person who is unusual [syn: anomaly, unusual person] 3: (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
• balmily 0
  adv 1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: daftly, dottily, balmily, nuttily, wackily]
• bawdily 0
  adv 1: in a bawdy manner
• beggarly 0
  adj 1: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" [syn: beggarly, mean] 2: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt [syn: beggarly, mean]
• bloodily 0
  adv 1: involving a great bloodshed [ant: bloodlessly]
• bodily 0
  adv 1: in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven" adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily organ"; "bodily functions" 2: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic] 3: having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily existence"
• broccoli 0
  n 1: plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds [syn: broccoli, Brassica oleracea italica] 2: branched green undeveloped flower heads
• caudally 0
  adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally, caudal]
• chastely 0
  adv 1: in a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: chastely, virtuously]
• cheekily 0
  adv 1: in a brash cheeky manner; "brashly, she asked for a rebate" [syn: cheekily, nervily, brashly]
• clammily 0
  adv 1: in a clammy manner
• classically 0
  adv 1: in the manner of Greek and Roman culture; "this exercise develops a classically shaped body"
• coincidentally 0
  adv 1: happening at the same time [syn: coincidentally, coincidently]
• conjugally 0
  adv 1: in a conjugal manner [syn: conjugally, connubial]
• contumely 0
  n 1: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification]
• craftily 0
  adv 1: in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully]
• creakily 0
  adv 1: in a creaky manner; "the old boat was moving along creakily" [syn: creakily, creakingly, screakily]
• daintily 0
  adv 1: in a refined manner; "she nibbled daintily at her cake" 2: in a delicate manner; "the invitation cards were written up daintily in white and gold"
• departmentally 0
  adv 1: dependent on a department
• detrimentally 0
  adv 1: in a detrimental manner [syn: detrimentally, harmfully, noxiously] [ant: harmlessly]
• developmentally 0
  adv 1: with respect to development; "developmentally retarded"
• dismally 0
  adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future" [syn: dismally, drearily] 2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully]
• disorderly 0
  adj 1: undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths"; "disorderly conduct" [ant: orderly] 2: in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn: disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy] 3: completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn: chaotic, disorderly]
• distally 0
  adv 1: far from the center; "the bronchus is situated distally"
• dreamily 0
  adv 1: in a dreamy manner; "`She would look beautiful in the new dress,' Tommy said dreamily" [syn: dreamily, moonily, dreamfully]
• eagerly 0
  adv 1: with eagerness; in an eager manner; "the news was eagerly awaited" [syn: eagerly, thirstily]
• easterly 0
  adv 1: from the east; "the winds blew easterly all night" [ant: westerly] adj 1: lying in or toward the east; "the east side of New York"; "eastern cities" [syn: easterly, eastern] 2: from the east; used especially of winds; "an eastern wind"; "the winds are easterly" [syn: easterly, eastern] n 1: a wind from the east [syn: east wind, easter, easterly]
• elderly 0
  adj 1: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly residents could remember the construction of the first skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: aged, elderly, older, senior] n 1: people who are old collectively; "special arrangements were available for the aged" [syn: aged, elderly] [ant: young, youth]
• environmentally 0
  adv 1: for the environment; "the new recycling policy is environmentally safe"
• experimentally 0
  adv 1: in an experimental fashion; "this can be experimentally determined" [syn: experimentally, by experimentation, through an experiment]
• facsimile 0
  n 1: an exact copy or reproduction [syn: facsimile, autotype] 2: duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio [syn: facsimile, facsimile machine, fax] v 1: send something via a facsimile machine; "Can you fax me the report right away?" [syn: fax, telefax, facsimile]
• family 0
  n 1: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 2: primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" [syn: family, family unit] 3: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents" [syn: class, category, family] 4: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry] 5: a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" [syn: kin, kinsperson, family] 6: (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera; "sharks belong to the fish family" 7: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family] 8: an association of people who share common beliefs or activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees but to every member of the company family"; "the church welcomed new members into its fellowship" [syn: family, fellowship]
• feudally 0
  adv 1: in a feudal manner; "a feudally organized society"
• fiscally 0
  adv 1: in financial matters; "fiscally irresponsible" [syn: fiscally, in fiscal matters]
• formally 0
  adv 1: with official authorization; "the club will be formally recognized" [syn: formally, officially] 2: in a formal manner; "he was dressed rather formally" [ant: informally]
• formerly 0
  adv 1: at a previous time; "at one time he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once"; [syn: once, formerly, at one time, erstwhile, erst]
• friskily 0
  adv 1: in a playfully frisky manner; "he moves about friskily despite his age"
• frontally 0
  adv 1: in, at, or toward the front
• frostily 0
  adv 1: without warmth or enthusiasm; "`Come in if you have to,' he said frostily" [syn: frostily, frigidly]
• frugally 0
  adv 1: in a frugal manner; "in villages, the new pipeline marks the end of water as a precious liquid, to be dispensed frugally, weighed out drop by drop"
• fundamentally 0
  adv 1: in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature; "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person" [syn: basically, fundamentally, essentially]
• gaudily 0
  adv 1: in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly decorated with bright plastic flowers" [syn: garishly, tawdrily, gaudily]
• ghastly 0
  adj 1: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick] 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral]
• giddily 0
  adv 1: in a giddy light-headed manner; "he walked around dizzily" [syn: dizzily, giddily, light-headedly]
• gloomily 0
  adv 1: with gloom; "such a change is gloomily foreseen by many"
• greedily 0
  adv 1: in a greedy manner [syn: avariciously, covetously, greedily]
• guiltily 0
  adv 1: in the manner of someone who has committed an offense; "she blushed guiltily as she spoke"
• handily 0
  adv 1: in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located" [syn: handily, conveniently] [ant: inconveniently] 2: with no difficulty; "she beat him handily" [syn: handily, hands down]
• hastily 0
  adv 1: in a hurried or hasty manner; "the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful"; "hastily, he scanned the headlines"; "sold in haste and at a sacrifice" [syn: hurriedly, hastily, in haste] [ant: unhurriedly]
• hebdomadally 0
  adv 1: without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly" [syn: hebdomadally, weekly, every week, each week]
• homily 0
  n 1: a sermon on a moral or religious topic [syn: homily, preachment]
• horizontally 0
  adv 1: in a horizontal direction; "a gallery quite often is added to make use of space vertically as well as horizontally"
• huskily 0
  adv 1: in a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,' he said hoarsely" [syn: hoarsely, huskily]
• illegally 0
  adv 1: in an illegal manner; "they dumped the waste illegally" [syn: illegally, illicitly, lawlessly] [ant: lawfully, legitimately, licitly]
• incidentally 0
  adv 1: introducing a different topic; in point of fact; "incidentally, I won't go to the party" [syn: by the way, by the bye, incidentally, apropos] 2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally]
• informally 0
  adv 1: without formality; "he visited us informally" [ant: formally] 2: with the use of colloquial expressions; "this building is colloquially referred to as The Barn" [syn: colloquially, conversationally, informally]
• jauntily 0
  adv 1: in a jaunty fashionable manner; "his hat sat jauntily on his full brown hair"
• jerkily 0
  adv 1: with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn: spasmodically, jerkily] 2: with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the window seat"
• jubilantly 0
  adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]
• justly 0
  adv 1: with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time" [syn: rightly, justly, justifiedly] [ant: unjustly] 2: in accordance with moral or social standards; "that serves him right"; "do right by him" [syn: justly, right]
• lastly 0
  adv 1: the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values" [syn: last, lastly, in conclusion, finally]
• legally 0
  adv 1: by law; conforming to the law; "we are lawfully wedded now" [syn: legally, lawfully, de jure] [ant: unlawfully] 2: in a legal manner; "he acted legally"
• locally 0
  adv 1: by a particular locality; "it was locally decided" 2: to a restricted area of the body; "apply this medicine topically" [syn: locally, topically]
• loftily 0
  adv 1: in a lofty manner; "she bore herself loftily"
• luckily 0
  adv 1: by good fortune; "fortunately the weather was good" [syn: fortunately, fortuitously, luckily, as luck would have it] [ant: alas, regrettably, unfortunately, unluckily]
• lustily 0
  adv 1: in a healthy manner; "the young plants grew lustily"
• malevolently 0
  adv 1: in a malevolent manner; "she gossips malevolently" [ant: benevolently]
• manifestly 0
  adv 1: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain]
• masterly 0
  adj 1: having or revealing supreme mastery or skill; "a consummate artist"; "consummate skill"; "a masterful speaker"; "masterful technique"; "a masterly performance of the sonata"; "a virtuoso performance" [syn: consummate, masterful, masterly, virtuoso(a)]
• maximally 0
  adv 1: to a maximal degree; "the cells maximally responsive to lines in this orientation will fire" [ant: minimally]
• melancholy 0
  adj 1: characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" [syn: melancholy, melancholic] 2: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" [syn: somber, sombre, melancholy] n 1: a feeling of thoughtful sadness 2: a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed 3: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy [syn: black bile, melancholy]
• mentally 0
  adv 1: in your mind; "he suffered mentally"
• minimally 0
  adv 1: to a minimal degree; "the cells minimally responsive to lines in this orientation will not fire" [ant: maximally]
• mistily 0
  adv 1: in a misty manner; "the summits of the mountains were mistily purple" 2: in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: vaguely, mistily]
• modestly 0
  adv 1: with modesty; in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'" [ant: immodestly]
• moistly 0
  adv 1: in a damp manner; "a scarf was tied round her head but the rebellious curl had escaped and hung damply over her left eye" [syn: damply, moistly]
• moodily 0
  adv 1: in a moody manner; "in the bar, a youngish, sharp-eyed man was staring moodily into a gin and tonic"
• mostly 0
  adv 1: in large part; mainly or chiefly; "These accounts are largely inactive" [syn: largely, mostly, for the most part] 2: usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here" [syn: by and large, generally, more often than not, mostly]
• murkily 0
  adv 1: unclearly; opaquely; "murkily expressed ideas" 2: with a dim light; "a dimly lit room" [syn: dimly, murkily]
• nastily 0
  adv 1: in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" [syn: nastily, meanly]
• nitrify 0
  v 1: convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria 2: treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound [syn: nitrify, nitrogenize, nitrogenise] 3: treat (soil) with nitrates [ant: denitrify]
• nonchalantly 0
  adv 1: in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn: coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly] 2: in an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines" [syn: casually, nonchalantly]
• normally 0
  adv 1: under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: normally, usually, unremarkably, commonly, ordinarily] [ant: outstandingly, remarkably, unco, unusually]
• optimally 0
  adv 1: in an optimal and most desirable way
• opulently 0
  adv 1: in a sumptuous and opulent manner; "this government building is sumptuously appointed" [syn: sumptuously, opulently]
• orderly 0
  adj 1: devoid of violence or disruption; "an orderly crowd confronted the president" [ant: disorderly] 2: clean or organized; "her neat dress"; "a neat room" [syn: neat, orderly] n 1: a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer; "the orderly laid out the general's uniform" 2: a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients [syn: orderly, hospital attendant]
• ornamentally 0
  adv 1: in an ornamental, nonfunctional manner
• painterly 0
  adj 1: having qualities unique to the art of painting
• parentally 0
  adv 1: in a parental manner
• perkily 0
  adv 1: in a perky manner; "stuck perkily, like a bustle on a woman's skirt"
• petulantly 0
  adv 1: in a petulant manner; "he said testily; `Go away!'" [syn: testily, irritably, petulantly, pettishly]
• pluckily 0
  adv 1: in a plucky manner; "he was Brentford's defensive star in pluckily holding out the determined Reading raids for long periods"
• poignantly 0
  adv 1: in a poignant or touching manner; "she spoke poignantly" [syn: affectingly, poignantly, touchingly]
• preponderantly 0
  adv 1: much greater in number or influence; "the patients are predominantly indigenous" [syn: predominantly, preponderantly]
• prickly 0
  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]
• priestly 0
  adj 1: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal] 2: befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood; "priestly dedication to the people of his parish" [syn: priestly, priestlike] [ant: unpriestly]

See also diastole definition