Words that rhyme with grandiosely

• abstrusely 0
  adv 1: in a manner difficult to understand; "the professor's abstrusely reasoned theories were wasted on his students"
• closely 0
  adv 1: in a close relation or position in time or space; "the onsets were closely timed"; "houses set closely together"; "was closely involved in monitoring daily progress" 2: in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard" [syn: close, closely, tight] 3: in a close manner; "the two phenomena are intimately connected"; "the person most nearly concerned" [syn: closely, intimately, nearly]
• coarsely 0
  adv 1: in coarse pieces; "the surfaces were coarsely granular" [ant: finely]
• concisely 0
  adv 1: in a concise manner; in a few words; "the history is summed up concisely in this book"; "she replied briefly"; "briefly, we have a problem"; "to put it shortly" [syn: concisely, briefly, shortly, in brief, in short]
• contumeliously 0
  adv 1: without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously]
• crossly 0
  adv 1: in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly" [syn: crossly, grouchily, grumpily]
• expressly 0
  adv 1: with specific intentions; for the express purpose; "she needs the money expressly for her patients"
• grisly 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]
• grizzly 0
  adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] n 1: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America [syn: grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis]
• hoarsely 0
  adv 1: in a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,' he said hoarsely" [syn: hoarsely, huskily]
• imprecisely 0
  adv 1: in an imprecise manner; "he expressed himself imprecisely" [syn: imprecisely, inexactly] [ant: exactly, incisively, precisely]
• loosely 0
  adv 1: in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" [syn: loosely, slackly] 2: in a loose manner; "a union of loosely federated states" 3: without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly" [syn: broadly, loosely, broadly speaking, generally] [ant: narrowly] 4: knitted in a loose manner; "loosely knit"
• measly 0
  adj 1: contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" [syn: measly, miserable, paltry]
• muesli 0
  n 1: mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits
• nebulously 0
  adv 1: in a nebulous and indefinite manner
• needlessly 0
  adv 1: without need; "it would needlessly bring badness into the world"
• nicely 0
  adv 1: in a nice way; "a nicely painted house"
• noiselessly 0
  adv 1: without a sound; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door" [syn: noiselessly, soundlessly]
• obtusely 0
  adv 1: in a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone" [syn: dumbly, densely, obtusely]
• painlessly 0
  adv 1: without pain; "after the surgery, she could move her arms painlessly" [ant: painfully, sorely]
• paisley 0
  n 1: a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes
• parsley 0
  n 1: annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves [syn: parsley, Petroselinum crispum] 2: aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food
• perilously 0
  adv 1: in a dangerous manner; "he came dangerously close to falling off the ledge" [syn: perilously, hazardously, dangerously]
• perversely 0
  adv 1: deliberately deviant; "his perversely erotic notions" 2: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise]
• precisely 0
  adv 1: indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt" [syn: precisely, exactly, just] 2: in a precise manner; "she always expressed herself precisely" [syn: precisely, incisively, exactly] [ant: imprecisely, inexactly] 3: just as it should be; "`Precisely, my lord,' he said" [syn: precisely, exactly, on the nose, on the dot, on the button]
• princely 0
  adj 1: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous] 2: having the rank of or befitting a prince; "a princely bearing"; "princely manner"
• purposelessly 0
  adv 1: without a clear purpose; "let's not purposelessly dispense the aid"
• querulously 0
  adv 1: in a peevish manner [syn: peevishly, querulously, fractiously]
• ruthlessly 0
  adv 1: in a ruthless manner; "the government has been urged to take immediate action to deal ruthlessly with the strikers"
• scarcely 0
  adv 1: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats [syn: barely, hardly, just, scarcely, scarce] 2: almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator" [syn: hardly, scarcely]
• scrupulously 0
  adv 1: with extreme conscientiousness; "he came religiously every morning at 8 o'clock" [syn: scrupulously, conscientiously, religiously]
• selflessly 0
  adv 1: in an altruistic manner; "he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress" [syn: altruistically, selflessly]
• senselessly 0
  adv 1: in a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent bystanders were senselessly killed" 2: in an unreasonably senseless manner; "these temples were mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards" [syn: mindlessly, senselessly]
• shamelessly 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]
• shapelessly 0
  adv 1: in a shapeless manner; "the dress hung shapelessly on her thin body"
• sleeplessly 0
  adv 1: without sleep; in a sleepless manner; "he was lying in bed sleeplessly"
• soullessly 0
  adv 1: in a soulless manner; "they were soullessly grubbing for profit"
• soundlessly 0
  adv 1: without a sound; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door" [syn: noiselessly, soundlessly]
• sparsely 0
  adv 1: in a sparse manner; "sparsely inhabited"
• speechlessly 0
  adv 1: without speaking; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door"
• spotlessly 0
  adv 1: in a spotless manner; "spotlessly clean"
• sprucely 0
  adv 1: in a stylish manner; "He was smartly dressed" [syn: smartly, modishly, sprucely]
• superciliously 0
  adv 1: with a sneer; in an uncomplimentary sneering manner; "`I don't believe in these customs,' he said sneeringly" [syn: sneeringly, superciliously, snidely]
• tactlessly 0
  adv 1: without tact; in a tactless manner; "at the moment of the murder, he is standing in front of television cameras and talking tactlessly" [ant: tactfully]
• tastelessly 0
  adv 1: without taste or in poor taste; in a tasteless manner; "the house was tastelessly decorated" [ant: tastefully, tastily]
• tensely 0
  adv 1: in a tense manner; "he sat down tensely"
• tersely 0
  adv 1: in a short and concise manner; "a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds" [syn: telegraphically, tersely]
• unwisely 0
  adv 1: without good sense or judgment; "He acted foolishly when he agreed to come" [syn: foolishly, unwisely] [ant: sagely, wisely]
• wisely 0
  adv 1: in a wise manner; "she acted wisely when she invited her parents" [syn: wisely, sagely] [ant: foolishly, unwisely]
• frizzly 0
  adj 1: (of hair) in small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy]
• presley 0
  n 1: United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) [syn: Presley, Elvis Presley, Elvis Aron Presley]
• wesley 0
  n 1: English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788) [syn: Wesley, Charles Wesley] 2: English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791) [syn: Wesley, John Wesley]
• bellicosely 0
• choicely 0
• crassly 0
• lachrymosely 0
• seamlessly 0
• spinelessly 0
• spiritlessly 0
• worsley 0
• beardsley 0
• beasley 0
• sisley 0
• lesley 0
• leslie 0
• tinsley 0
• hensley 0
• moseley 0
• mosley 0
• wellesley 0
• comatosely 0

See also grandiosely definition and grandiosely synonyms