Words that rhyme with excursively

adv 1: in an abusive manner; "he behaved abusively toward his children"

adv 1: in an aggressive manner; "she was being sharply questioned" [syn: aggressively, sharply]

adv 1: with anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously" [syn: anxiously, uneasily, apprehensively]

adv 1: in an all-inclusive manner [ant: noncomprehensively]

adv 1: in a compulsive manner; "he cleaned his shoes compulsively after every walk" [syn: compulsively, obsessively, obsessionally]

adv 1: in a conclusive way; "we settled the problem conclusively" [syn: conclusively, once and for all] [ant: inconclusively]

adv 1: with convulsions, in a convulsive way; "her leg twitched convulsively"

adv 1: in a cursive manner

adv 1: with firmness; "`I will come along,' she said decisively" [syn: decisively, resolutely] [ant: indecisively] 2: with finality; conclusively; "the voted settled the argument decisively" [ant: indecisively] 3: in an indisputable degree; "the Fisher Act of 1918 decisively raised their status and pay"

adv 1: in an apologetic and defensive manner; "`I felt it better you should know,' said Sir Cedric defensively" 2: in a defensive manner; "the general conviction that our side is in the right and acting defensively over what Russians call the German question and Americans the Berlin crisis" [ant: offensively]

adv 1: in a deceptive and unrealistic manner; "the village looked delusively near"

adv 1: in a disrespectful and mocking manner; "`Sorry,' she repeated derisively" [syn: derisively, scoffingly, derisorily, mockingly]

adv 1: in a rambling manner [syn: discursively, ramblingly]

adv 1: in an effusive manner; "the critics praised her effusively"

adv 1: with evasion; in an evasive manner; "her husband seemed to know many of the people who were named, but he replied evasively when asked who they were"

adv 1: to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; "too big" [syn: excessively, overly, to a fault, too]

adv 1: without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him" [syn: entirely, exclusively, solely, alone, only]

adv 1: in an exhaustive manner; "we searched the files thoroughly" [syn: thoroughly, exhaustively]

adv 1: in an impressively expansive manner; "she managed to live rather expansively on her modest income" 2: in an ebullient manner; "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression" [syn: ebulliently, exuberantly, expansively]

adv 1: in an expensive manner; "an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her" [ant: cheaply, inexpensively, tattily]

adv 1: suddenly and rapidly; "the population in Central America is growing explosively" 2: in an explosive manner; "the political situation in Kashmir and Jammu is explosively unstable"

adv 1: with expression; in an expressive manner; "she gave the order to the waiter, using her hands very expressively" [ant: inexpressively]

adv 1: in a widespread way; "oxidation ponds are extensively used for sewage treatment in the Midwest"

adv 1: in an impassive manner; "he submitted impassively to his arrest"

adv 1: in an impressive manner; "the students progressed impressively fast" [syn: impressively, imposingly] [ant: unimpressively]

adv 1: in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions; "he often acts impulsively and later regrets it" [syn: impetuously, impulsively]

adv 1: in an incisive manner; "he was incisively critical" 2: in a precise manner; "she always expressed herself precisely" [syn: precisely, incisively, exactly] [ant: imprecisely, inexactly]

adv 1: not conclusively; "the meeting ended inconclusively" [ant: conclusively, once and for all]

adv 1: lacking firmness or resoluteness; "`I don't know,' he said indecisively" [ant: decisively, resolutely] 2: without finality; inconclusively; "the battle ended indecisively; neither side had clearly won but neither side admitted defeat" [ant: decisively]

adv 1: in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar" [syn: cheaply, tattily, inexpensively] [ant: expensively] 2: with little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply" [syn: cheaply, inexpensively]

adv 1: without expression; in an inexpressive manner; "she looked at him inexpressively" [ant: expressively]

adv 1: in a not unpleasantly offensive manner; "that wretched beast, the elephant, breathing inoffensively not a pace behind me" [ant: offensively]

adv 1: in an intensive manner; "he studied the snake intensively"

adv 1: to a massive degree or in a massive manner; "tonight the haddock were shoaling massively in three hundred fathoms"

adv 1: in a compulsive manner; "he cleaned his shoes compulsively after every walk" [syn: compulsively, obsessively, obsessionally]

adv 1: in an obtrusive manner [ant: unobtrusively]

adv 1: in an unpleasantly offensive manner; "he smelled offensively unwashed" [ant: inoffensively] 2: in an obnoxious manner; "he said so in one of his more offensively intellectually arrogant sentences" [syn: offensively, objectionably, obnoxiously] 3: in an aggressive manner; "`In this crisis, we must act offensively,' the President said"; "the admiral intends to act offensively in the Mediterranean" [ant: defensively]

adv 1: in a heavy and oppressive way; "it was oppressively hot in the office"

adv 1: in a passive manner; "he listened passively" [ant: actively]

adv 1: in a pensive manner; "pensively he stared at the painting"

adv 1: in a permissive manner

adv 1: in a persuasive manner; "this essay argues so persuasively..."

adv 1: in a pervasive manner

adv 1: in a possessive manner; "he was sleeping, one arm flung possessively across his wife"

adv 1: advancing in amount or intensity; "she became increasingly depressed" [syn: increasingly, progressively, more and more]

adv 1: in a servile manner; "he always acts so deferentially around his supervisor" [syn: deferentially, submissively]

adv 1: in proper order or sequence; "talked to each child in turn"; "the stable became in turn a chapel and then a movie theater" [syn: successively, in turn]

adv 1: in a suggestive manner; "she smiled suggestively"

adv 1: in an unobtrusive manner; "messengers were moving unobtrusively over the jet-black mountain ranges, bearing confidential tidings from sheikhdom to sheikhdom" [ant: obtrusively]