Words that rhyme with greenley

  • brazenly
    adv 1: in a brazen manner; "he spoke brazenly"
  • certainly
    adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]
  • cleanly
    adv 1: in an adroit manner; "he bounced it cleanly off the wall" [syn: flawlessly, cleanly] 2: in a manner that minimizes dirt and pollution; "the motor burns cleanly" 3: without difficulty or distortion; "she played the piano accompaniment cleanly" adj 1: habitually clean; "cleanly in their persons and habitations"
  • commonly
    adv 1: under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: normally, usually, unremarkably, commonly, ordinarily] [ant: outstandingly, remarkably, unco, unusually]
  • divinely
    adv 1: by divine means; "the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal existence"
  • drunkenly
    adv 1: showing effects of much strong drink; "He sang drunkenly"
  • greenly
    adv 1: with green color; "the countryside rolled greenly down into the valley"
  • keenly
    adv 1: in a keen and discriminating manner; "he was keenly aware of his own shortcomings"
  • lonely
    adj 1: lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" [syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 2: marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar" [syn: lonely, lonesome] 3: characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk" [syn: lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 4: devoid of creatures; "a lonely crossroads"; "a solitary retreat"; "a trail leading to an unfrequented lake" [syn: lonely, solitary, unfrequented]
  • mainly
    adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main]
  • manly
    adv 1: in a manful manner; with qualities thought to befit a man; "having said her say Peggy manfully shouldered her burden and prepared to break up yet another home" [syn: manfully, manly] [ant: unmanfully, unmanly] adj 1: possessing qualities befitting a man [syn: manly, manful, manlike] [ant: unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly] 2: characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports" [syn: male, manful, manlike, manly, virile]
  • meanly
    adv 1: in a nasty ill-tempered manner; "`Don't expect me to help you,' he added nastily" [syn: nastily, meanly] 2: in a despicable, ignoble manner; "this new leader meanly threatens the deepest values of our society" [syn: meanly, scurvily, basely] 3: poorly or in an inferior manner; "troops meanly equipped" 4: in a miserly manner; "they lived meanly and without ostentation" [syn: meanly, humbly]
  • obscenely
    adv 1: to an obscene degree; "this man is obscenely rich" 2: in a lewd and obscene manner; "he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely" [syn: lewdly, obscenely]
  • only
    adv 1: and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: merely, simply, just, only, but] 2: 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] 3: with nevertheless the final result; "He arrived only to find his wife dead"; "We won only to lose again in the next round" 4: in the final outcome; "These news will only make you more upset" 5: except that; "It was the same story; only this time she came out better" 6: never except when; "call me only if your cold gets worse" [syn: only, only if, only when] 7: as recently as; "I spoke to him only an hour ago" adj 1: being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" [syn: lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)] 2: exclusive of anyone or anything else; "she alone believed him"; "cannot live by bread alone"; "I'll have this car and this car only" [syn: alone(p), only]
  • 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]
  • queenly
    adj 1: having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen; "queenly propriety"; "clad in her queenly raiment"; "Rosetti's queenly portraits of women" [syn: queenly, queenlike]
  • routinely
    adv 1: according to routine or established practice; "he routinely parked in a no-parking zone"
  • 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]
  • serenely
    adv 1: in a peacefully serene manner; "I had the feeling that he was waiting, too--serenely patient"
  • sternly
    adv 1: with sternness; in a severe manner; "`No,' she said sternly"; "peered severely over her glasses" [syn: sternly, severely]
  • thinly
    adv 1: without force or sincere effort; "smiled thinly" 2: without viscosity; "the blood was flowing thin" [syn: thinly, thin] [ant: thick, thickly] 3: in a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly" [syn: thinly, lightly] [ant: thickly] 4: in a widely distributed manner; "thinly overgrown mountainside" [ant: densely, thickly]
  • 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]
  • wanly
    adv 1: in a weak or pale or languid manner; "she was smiling wanly"
  • stanley
    n 1: United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918) [syn: Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley] 2: Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904) [syn: Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands]
  • uncleanly
    adj 1: habitually unclean
  • brokenly
  • clandestinely
  • cravenly
  • leanly
  • pronely
  • henley