Words that rhyme with earnestly

• barefacedly 0
  adv 1: without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, shamelessly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly]
• beastly 0
  adv 1: in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law" adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket" [syn: beastly, hellish, god-awful] 2: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
• belligerently 0
  adv 1: with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently" [syn: belligerently, hostilely]
• benevolently 0
  adv 1: in a benevolent manner; "she looked on benevolently" [ant: malevolently]
• chastely 0
  adv 1: in a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: chastely, virtuously]
• coherently 0
  adv 1: in a coherent manner; "she could not talk coherently after the accident" [ant: incoherently]
• concurrently 0
  adv 1: overlapping in duration; "concurrently with the conference an exhibition of things associated with Rutherford was held"; "going to school and holding a job at the same time" [syn: concurrently, at the same time]
• consequently 0
  adv 1: (sentence connectors) because of the reason given; "consequently, he didn't do it"; "continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor" [syn: consequently, accordingly] 2: as a consequence; "he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held" [syn: consequently, therefore]
• costly 0
  adj 1: entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory" [syn: dearly-won, costly] 2: having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant" [syn: costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricy]
• daftly 0
  adv 1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: daftly, dottily, balmily, nuttily, wackily]
• deftly 0
  adv 1: with dexterity; in a dexterous manner; "dextrously he untied the knots" [syn: dexterously, dextrously, deftly] 2: in a deft manner; "Lois deftly removed her scarf"
• deucedly 0
  adv 1: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly]
• differently 0
  adv 1: in another and different manner; "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise"; "there is no way out other than the fire escape"; [syn: differently, otherwise, other than]
• dishonestly 0
  adv 1: in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend" [syn: dishonestly, venally, deceitfully] [ant: aboveboard, honestly]
• eloquently 0
  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]
• excellently 0
  adv 1: extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously" [syn: excellently, magnificently, splendidly, famously]
• exuberantly 0
  adv 1: in an exuberant manner; "the exuberantly baroque decoration of the church" [syn: exuberantly, riotously] 2: in an ebullient manner; "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression" [syn: ebulliently, exuberantly, expansively]
• firstly 0
  adv 1: before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake" [syn: first, firstly, foremost, first of all, first off]
• flagrantly 0
  adv 1: in a flagrant manner; "he is flagrantly disregarding the law"
• fraudulently 0
  adv 1: in a dishonest and fraudulent manner; "this money was fraudulently obtained"
• gallantly 0
  adv 1: in a gallant manner; "he gallantly offered to take her home" [syn: gallantly, chivalrously] [ant: unchivalrously]
• 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]
• ghostly 0
  adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]
• grandiloquently 0
  adv 1: in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner; "the orator spoke magniloquently" [syn: grandiloquently, magniloquently]
• honestly 0
  adv 1: (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly, candidly, frankly] 2: in an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything" [syn: honestly, aboveboard] [ant: deceitfully, dishonestly, venally]
• ignorantly 0
  adv 1: in ignorance; in an ignorant manner; "they lived ignorantly in their own small world"
• importantly 0
  adv 1: in an important way or to an important degree; "more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event itself" [syn: importantly, significantly] 2: in an important way; "for centuries jellies have figured importantly among English desserts, particularly upon festive occasion"
• incoherently 0
  adv 1: in an incoherent manner; "he talked incoherently when he drank too much" [ant: coherently]
• inconsequently 0
  adv 1: lacking consequence; "`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'" [syn: inconsequentially, inconsequently] [ant: consequentially]
• indifferently 0
  adv 1: with indifference; in an indifferent manner; "she shrugged indifferently"
• indolently 0
  adv 1: in an indolent manner; "he lives indolently with his relatives"
• infrequently 0
  adv 1: not many times; "in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room" [ant: frequently, oft, often, oftentimes, ofttimes]
• inherently 0
  adv 1: in an inherent manner; "the subject matter is sexual activity of any overt kind, which is depicted as inherently desirable and exciting"
• insolently 0
  adv 1: in an insolent manner; "he had replied insolently to his superiors"
• intolerantly 0
  adv 1: in an intolerant manner [ant: tolerantly] 2: in a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally]
• irreverently 0
  adv 1: without respect; "the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence" [ant: reverentially, reverently] 2: in an irreverent manner; "in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used"
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• 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]
• opulently 0
  adv 1: in a sumptuous and opulent manner; "this government building is sumptuously appointed" [syn: sumptuously, opulently]
• petulantly 0
  adv 1: in a petulant manner; "he said testily; `Go away!'" [syn: testily, irritably, petulantly, pettishly]
• 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]
• 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]
• recurrently 0
  adv 1: in a recurrent manner
• repellently 0
  adv 1: in a repellent manner; "repellently fat" [syn: repellently, repellingly]
• reverently 0
  adv 1: with reverence; in a reverent manner; "he gazed reverently at the handiwork" [syn: reverentially, reverently] [ant: irreverently]
• shamefacedly 0
  adv 1: in a shamefaced manner; "quarrels and dissensions ensued among the cast, most of whom hurriedly and shamefacedly handed over their parts to understudies"
• silently 0
  adv 1: without speaking; "he sat mutely next to her" [syn: mutely, wordlessly, silently, taciturnly]
• softly 0
  adv 1: with low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly" [syn: softly, quietly] [ant: aloud, loud, loudly] 2: in a manner that is pleasing to the senses; "she smiled softly" 3: with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead" [syn: lightly, softly, gently] 4: used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly [syn: piano, softly] [ant: forte, loudly]
• somnolently 0
  adv 1: in a drowsy manner; "`Time to get up,' she said drowsily" [syn: drowsily, somnolently]
• steadfastly 0
  adv 1: with resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm" [syn: firm, firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly]
• subsequently 0
  adv 1: happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; "it didn't happen until afterward"; "two hours after that" [syn: subsequently, later, afterwards, afterward, after, later on]
• swiftly 0
  adv 1: in a swift manner; "she moved swiftly" [syn: swiftly, fleetly]
• tolerantly 0
  adv 1: in a tolerant manner; "he reacts rather tolerantly toward his son's juvenile behavior" [ant: intolerantly]
• truculently 0
  adv 1: in an aggressively truculent manner; "they strive for security by truculently asserting their own interests" 2: in a defiantly truculent manner; "the boy looked up truculently at his teacher"
• turbulently 0
  adv 1: in a turbulent manner; with turbulence; "the river rolls turbulently boiling" 2: in a stormy or violent manner [syn: stormily, turbulently, passionately]
• unjustly 0
  adv 1: in an unjust manner; "he was unjustly singled out for punishment" [ant: justifiedly, justly, rightly]
• vastly 0
  adv 1: to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator" [syn: vastly, immensely]
• vigilantly 0
  adv 1: in a watchful manner [syn: vigilantly, watchfully]
• violently 0
  adv 1: in a violent manner; "they attacked violently" [ant: nonviolently]
• virulently 0
  adv 1: in a virulent manner; "an old woman advanced a few paces to shake her fist virulently in my face"
• christly 0
  adj 1: resembling or showing the spirit of Christ [syn: christlike, christly]
• priestley 0
  n 1: English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804) [syn: Priestley, Joseph Priestley]
• ambivalently 0
• arrantly 0
• augustly 0
• covalently 0
• delinquently 0
• difficultly 0
• embarrassedly 0
• equivalently 0
• errantly 0
• flatulently 0
• fragrantly 0
• istle 0
• prevalently 0
• redolently 0
• succulently 0
• unchastely 0
• ungallantly 0
• vagrantly 0
• vibrantly 0
• astley 0

See also earnestly definition and earnestly synonyms