Words that rhyme with interrogatory

  • amendatory
    adj 1: effecting amendment; "added amendatory phrases to the text"
  • auditory
    adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive]
  • certificatory
    adj 1: serving to certify or endorse authoritatively
  • curie
    n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
  • derogatory
    adj 1: expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house" [syn: derogative, derogatory, disparaging]
  • excitatory
    adj 1: (of drugs e.g.) able to excite or stimulate [syn: excitant, excitative, excitatory]
  • exculpatory
    adj 1: clearing of guilt or blame [ant: inculpative, inculpatory]
  • exhortatory
    adj 1: giving strong encouragement [syn: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory]
  • feudatory
    adj 1: of or pertaining to the relation of a feudal vassal to his lord; "a feudatory relationship" 2: owing feudal allegiance to or being subject to a sovereign; "it remained feudatory to India until 1365" n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]
  • glory
    n 1: a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself" [syn: glory, glorification] 2: brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" [syn: glory, resplendence, resplendency] 3: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole] v 1: rejoice proudly
  • gory
    adj 1: covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory dagger" [syn: bloodstained, gory] 2: accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly]
  • hereditary
    adj 1: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" [syn: familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible] 2: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition" [syn: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible]
  • hoary
    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] 2: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary, rusty] 3: covered with fine whitish hairs or down [syn: canescent, hoary]
  • inhibitory
    adj 1: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing]
  • invitatory
    adj 1: conveying an invitation; "a brief invitatory note"
  • judicatory
    n 1: the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system]
  • jury
    n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law 2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury, panel]
  • laudatory
    adj 1: full of or giving praise; "a laudatory remark" [syn: laudatory, praiseful, praising]
  • lorry
    n 1: a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides 2: a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides [syn: lorry, camion]
  • mandatory
    adj 1: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading" [syn: compulsory, mandatory, required] n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory] 2: a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves [syn: mandate, mandatory]
  • obligatory
    adj 1: morally or legally constraining or binding; "attendance is obligatory"; "an obligatory contribution" [ant: optional] 2: required by obligation or compulsion or convention; "he made all the obligatory apologies"
  • predatory
    adj 1: characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding; "bands of marauding Indians"; "predatory warfare"; "a raiding party" [syn: marauding, predatory, raiding] 2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous] 3: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]
  • presbytery
    n 1: building reserved for the officiating clergy
  • purgatory
    n 1: a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse" 2: (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
  • quarry
    n 1: a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence; "he fell prey to muggers"; "everyone was fair game"; "the target of a manhunt" [syn: prey, quarry, target, fair game] 2: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: pit, quarry, stone pit] 3: animal hunted or caught for food [syn: prey, quarry] v 1: extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry; "quarry marble"
  • salutatory
    n 1: an opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) [syn: salutatory address, salutatory oration, salutatory]
  • sorry
    adj 1: feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase" [syn: regretful, sorry, bad] [ant: unregretful, unregretting] 2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry] 3: without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no- count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no-good piece of junk" [syn: good-for-nothing, good-for-naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no-good, sorry] 4: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
  • story
    n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale] 2: a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines" 3: a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?" [syn: floor, level, storey, story] 4: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] 5: a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious" [syn: report, news report, story, account, write up] 6: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]
  • supererogatory
    adj 1: more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" [syn: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus]
  • corrie
    n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]
  • tory
    n 1: an American who favored the British side during the American Revolution 2: a member of political party in Great Britain that has been known as the Conservative Party since 1832; was the opposition party to the Whigs 3: a supporter of traditional political and social institutions against the forces of reform; a political conservative
  • mandatary
    n 1: the recipient of a mandate [syn: mandatary, mandatory]
  • prohibitory
    adj 1: tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitive, prohibitory]
  • piscatory
    adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing; "a piscatory life" [syn: piscatorial, piscatory]
  • sudatory
    n 1: a medicine that causes or increases sweating [syn: sudorific, sudatory] 2: a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths [syn: sudatorium, sudatory]
  • auscultatory
    adj 1: of or relating to auscultation
  • vesicatory
    adj 1: causing blisters [syn: vesicatory, vesicant] n 1: a chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) [syn: vesicant, vesicatory]
  • emendatory
  • exhibitory
  • explicatory
  • expurgatory
  • invocatory
  • laevorotatory
  • recommendatory
  • aurae
  • morae
  • tori
  • potatory
  • saltatory
  • advocatory
  • compurgatory
  • manducatory
  • retardatory

See also interrogatory definition and interrogatory synonyms