Words that rhyme with ideally

  • agilely
    adv 1: in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease; "nimbly scaling an iron gate"- Charles Dickens; "leaped agilely from roof to roof" [syn: agilely, nimbly]
  • austerely
    adv 1: in an austere fashion; "the church was austerely simple"
  • clearly
    adv 1: without doubt or question; "they were clearly lost"; "history has clearly shown the folly of that policy" 2: in an intelligible manner; "the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly" [syn: intelligibly, clearly, understandably] [ant: unintelligibly, ununderstandably] 3: clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment; "it's distinctly possible"; "I could clearly see myself in his situation" [syn: distinctly, clearly] 4: in an easily perceptible manner; "could be seen clearly under the microscope"; "She cried loud and clear" [syn: clearly, clear]
  • coolly
    adv 1: in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn: coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly]
  • dearly
    adv 1: in a sincere and heartfelt manner; "I would dearly love to know" [syn: dearly, in a heartfelt way] 2: at a great cost; "he paid dearly for the food"; "this cost him dear" [syn: dearly, dear] 3: with affection; "she loved him dearly"; "he treats her affectionately" [syn: dearly, affectionately, dear]
  • dully
    adv 1: without liveliness; "she nodded her head dully" 2: without luster or shine; "the light shone dully through the haze"; "unpolished buttons glinted dully"
  • evilly
    adv 1: in a wicked evil manner; "act wickedly"; "grin evilly" [syn: wickedly, evilly]
  • foully
    adv 1: in an unfair and insulting manner; "this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists" [syn: foully, insultingly] 2: in a wicked and shameful manner; "two policemen were foully murdered"
  • freely
    adv 1: in a free manner; "the painting featured freely brushed strokes"
  • futilely
    adv 1: in a futile and unproductive manner
  • genteelly
    adv 1: in a genteel manner; "the English lived genteelly in India"
  • hostilely
    adv 1: with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently" [syn: belligerently, hostilely]
  • insincerely
    adv 1: without sincerity; "she congratulated him somewhat insincerely" [ant: sincerely, truly, unfeignedly]
  • mealy
    adj 1: containing meal or made of meal 2: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]
  • merely
    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]
  • nearly
    adv 1: (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well- nigh] 2: in a close manner; "the two phenomena are intimately connected"; "the person most nearly concerned" [syn: closely, intimately, nearly]
  • palely
    adv 1: in a manner lacking interest or vitality; "a palely entertaining show" [syn: pallidly, palely, dimly] 2: in a pale manner; without physical or emotional color; "his wife, always palely appealing"
  • proverbially
    adv 1: in the manner of something that has become a byword; "this proverbially bitter plant, wormwood"
  • queerly
    adv 1: in a strange manner; "a queerly inscribed sheet of paper" [syn: queerly, strangely, oddly, funnily] 2: in a questionably unusual manner; "this money had been queerly come by" [syn: queerly, fishily]
  • really
    adv 1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [syn: truly, genuinely, really] 2: in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn: actually, really] 3: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly] 4: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling]
  • severely
    adv 1: to a severe or serious degree; "fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated"; "badly injured"; "a severely impaired heart"; "is gravely ill"; "was seriously ill" [syn: badly, severely, gravely, seriously] 2: with sternness; in a severe manner; "`No,' she said sternly"; "peered severely over her glasses" [syn: sternly, severely] 3: causing great damage or hardship; "industries hit hard by the depression"; "she was severely affected by the bank's failure" [syn: hard, severely]
  • shrilly
    adv 1: in a shrill voice; "she sang rather shrilly" [syn: shrilly, piercingly]
  • sincerely
    adv 1: with sincerity; without pretense; "she praised him sincerely for his victory"; "was unfeignedly glad to see his old teacher"; "we are truly sorry for the inconvenience" [syn: sincerely, unfeignedly, truly] [ant: insincerely] 2: written formula for ending a letter [syn: sincerely, sincerely yours]
  • solely
    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]
  • steely
    adj 1: resembling steel as in hardness; "steely eyes"; "steely nerves like those of a steeplejack" 2: resembling steel in hardness
  • stilly
    adj 1: (poetic) still or calm; "in the stilly night"
  • vilely
    adv 1: in a vile manner; "his vilely spelt and illiterate letters"
  • wholly
    adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially, partly]
  • yearly
    adv 1: without missing a year; "they travel to China annually" [syn: annually, yearly, every year, each year] adj 1: occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: annual, yearly] n 1: a reference book that is published regularly once every year [syn: annual, yearly, yearbook]
  • mealie
    n 1: an ear of corn
  • demille
    n 1: United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959) [syn: DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille, Cecil Blount DeMille]
  • greeley
    n 1: United States journalist with political ambitions (1811-1872) [syn: Greeley, Horace Greeley]
  • swahili
    n 1: the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
  • banally
  • connubially
  • docilely
  • drolly
  • dually
  • fragilely
  • frailly
  • imbecilely
  • supplely
  • sheerly
  • wholely
  • automobili
  • cheely
  • creely
  • dealey
  • dealy
  • deeley
  • deely
  • deily
  • ealey
  • ealy
  • eley
  • feeley
  • feely
  • greely
  • healey
  • healy
  • quealy
  • seely
  • stealey
  • steeley
  • conneely
  • langille
  • marsili
  • marzilli
  • mcfeely
  • mckneely
  • mcnealy
  • mcneeley
  • mcneely
  • mcneilly
  • meneely
  • morreale
  • petrilli
  • pistilli
  • santilli
  • verrilli
  • zerilli
  • piccirilli
  • brierley
  • brierly
  • cheerly

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