Words that rhyme with explanatorily

adv 1: in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters' questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained to your children" [syn: flippantly, airily]

adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"

adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally, amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously]

adv 1: in a random manner; "the houses were randomly scattered"; "bullets were fired into the crowd at random" [syn: randomly, indiscriminately, haphazardly, willy- nilly, arbitrarily, at random, every which way]

adv 1: with regard to sound or the ear; "the new musical was visually and aurally appealing"

adv 1: with the involvement of two parties or governments; "they worked out an agreement bilaterally" 2: so as to involve two sides or parts

adv 1: with great caution; warily

adv 1: in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly" [syn: pleasantly, cheerily, sunnily]

adv 1: by a chorus; "chorally accompanied"

adv 1: in a contradictory manner; "he argued contradictorily"

adv 1: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise] 2: contrary to expectations; "he didn't stay home; on the contrary, he went out with his friends" [syn: contrarily, to the contrary, contrariwise, on the contrary]

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]

adv 1: in an elementary manner

adv 1: by federal government; "it's federally regulated"

adv 1: with passionate fervor; "both those for and against are fervently convinced they speak for the great majority of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book" [syn: fierily, fervently, fervidly]

adv 1: in a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally]

adv 1: without regard for morality; "he acted immorally when his own interests were at stake" [syn: immorally, amorally] [ant: morally, virtuously]

adv 1: to or by or from the side; "such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin" 2: in a lateral direction or location; "the body is spindle- shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"

adv 1: freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his stories liberally" 2: in a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities" [syn: liberally, munificently, generously]

adv 1: in a literal sense; "literally translated"; "he said so literally" [ant: figuratively] 2: (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War"

adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]

adv 1: with respect to the military; "on a militarily significant scale"

adv 1: for an instant or moment; "we paused momentarily before proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch" [syn: momentarily, momently] 2: at any moment; "she will be with you momently" [syn: momentarily, momently]

adv 1: in a monaural manner; "the stimuli were presented monaurally" [syn: monaurally, to one ear, in one ear] [ant: binaurally, in both ears, to both ears]

adv 1: with respect to moral principles; "morally unjustified" 2: in a moral manner; "he acted morally under the circumstances" [syn: morally, virtuously] [ant: amorally, immorally]

adv 1: in a multilateral manner;so as to affect many parties or governments; "they worked out an agreement unilaterally" [ant: one-sidedly, unilaterally]

adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: necessarily, needfully] [ant: unnecessarily] 2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs] 3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"

adv 1: in an obligatory manner; "this rule applies obligatorily" [ant: optionally] 2: in a manner that cannot be evaded; "the ministry considers that contributions to such a fund should be met from voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily levied." [syn: compulsorily, obligatorily, mandatorily]

adv 1: (of drugs) through the mouth rather than through injection; by_mouth; "he was administered the drug orally" 2: by spoken rather than written means; "these stories were transmitted by word of mouth" [syn: orally, by word of mouth]

adv 1: in an imperative and commanding manner [syn: imperatively, peremptorily]

adv 1: in a set manner without serious attention; "they answered my letter pro forma"; "he kissed her cheek perfunctorily" [syn: perfunctorily, as a formality, pro forma]

adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main] 2: of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter" [syn: primarily, in the first place] [ant: secondarily]

adv 1: in a rural manner

adv 1: in a satisfactory manner [ant: unsatisfactorily]

v 1: puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals; "The men in some African tribes scarify their faces" 2: scratch the surface of; "scarify seeds" 3: break up; "scarify soil"

adv 1: in solitude; "a hermit chooses to live solitarily"

adv 1: with spirals; "spirally fluted handles"

adv 1: according to statute; "placed statutorily under the council's supervision"

adv 1: with regard to temporal order; "temporally processed"

adv 1: for a limited time only; not permanently; "he will work here temporarily"; "he was brought out of retirement temporarily"; "a power failure temporarily darkened the town" [ant: for good, permanently]

adv 1: in an exhaustive manner; "we searched the files thoroughly" [syn: thoroughly, exhaustively] 2: completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly'); "he was soundly defeated"; "we beat him good" [syn: thoroughly, soundly, good]

adv 1: for a very brief time

adv 1: in a unilateral manner; by means of one part or party; "they worked out an agreement unilaterally" [syn: unilaterally, one-sidedly] [ant: multilaterally]

adv 1: in an unnecessary manner; "they were unnecessarily rude" [ant: necessarily, needfully] 2: without any necessity; "this marathon would exhaust him unnecessarily"

adv 1: in an unsatisfactory manner; "He performed unsatisfactorily as a manager" [ant: satisfactorily]

adv 1: without heed or caution [ant: warily]

adv 1: in truth; certainly; "I verily think so"; "trust in the Lord...and verily thou shalt be fed"- Ps 37:3

adv 1: in a wary manner; "the sailor watched the sky warily" [ant: unwarily]

adv 1: in a weary manner; "he walked around tiredly" [syn: tiredly, wearily]