Words that rhyme with gainly

  • humanely
    adv 1: in a humane manner; "let's treat the prisoners of war humanely" [ant: inhumanely]
  • inanely
    adv 1: vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish [syn: fatuously, inanely]
  • inhumanely
    adv 1: in an inhumane manner; "the prisoners of war were treated inhumanely" [ant: humanely]
  • insanely
    adv 1: in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" [syn: insanely, crazily, dementedly, madly] [ant: sanely] 2: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly]
  • mainly
    adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main]
  • mundanely
    adv 1: in a worldly manner; "terrestrially changeable" [syn: mundanely, terrestrially] 2: in a mundane manner; "the young man spoke so mundanely of university life"
  • plainly
    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] 2: in a simple manner; without extravagance or embellishment; "she was dressed plainly"; "they lived very simply" [syn: plainly, simply]
  • sanely
    adv 1: with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner; "he acted sensibly in the crisis"; "speak more sanely about these affairs"; "acted quite reasonably" [syn: sanely, sensibly, reasonably] [ant: unreasonably] 2: in a sane or lucid manner; "she is behaving rather sanely these days even though we know she is schizophrenic" [ant: crazily, dementedly, insanely, madly]
  • ungainly
    adj 1: lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair" [syn: gawky, clumsy, clunky, ungainly, unwieldy] 2: difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape; "an awkward bundle to carry"; "a load of bunglesome paraphernalia"; "clumsy wooden shoes"; "the cello, a rather ungainly instrument for a girl" [syn: awkward, bunglesome, clumsy, ungainly]
  • urbanely
    adv 1: in an urbane manner; "`I had tea occasionally with the Duke,' said Mr. Eggers urbanely"
  • vainly
    adv 1: to no avail; "he looked for her in vain"; "the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution" [syn: vainly, in vain]
  • ainley
  • cranely
  • hainley
  • rainley
  • germanely
  • inurbanely

See also gainly definition and gainly synonyms