Words that rhyme with kingly

  • accordingly
    adv 1: (sentence connectors) because of the reason given; "consequently, he didn't do it"; "continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor" [syn: consequently, accordingly] 2: in accordance with; "she acted accordingly"
  • admiringly
    adv 1: with admiration; "he looked at his wife admiringly"
  • alarmingly
    adv 1: in an alarming manner; "It grew alarmingly fast"
  • amazingly
    adv 1: in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years" [syn: amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly]
  • amusingly
    adv 1: in an entertaining and amusing manner; "Hollywood has grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really amusingly bad these days" [syn: amusingly, divertingly]
  • annoyingly
    adv 1: in an annoying manner or to an annoying degree
  • appallingly
    adv 1: to an appalling extent; "the prisoners were appallingly thin"
  • appealingly
    adv 1: in an appealing manner; "the table was set appealingly" [ant: unappealingly]
  • approvingly
    adv 1: in an approving manner; "she nodded approvingly" [ant: disapprovingly]
  • astonishingly
    adv 1: in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly, he finished medical school in three years" [syn: amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly]
  • banteringly
    adv 1: in a bantering fashion; "he spoke to her banteringly" [syn: banteringly, tongue-in-cheek]
  • becomingly
    adv 1: in a becoming manner; "she was becomingly dressed"
  • beseechingly
    adv 1: in a beseeching manner; "`You must help me,' she said imploringly" [syn: beseechingly, importunately, imploringly, pleadingly, entreatingly]
  • bewilderingly
    adv 1: in a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was bewilderingly unclear" [syn: bewilderingly, confusingly]
  • bitingly
    adv 1: extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold" [syn: piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter]
  • calculatingly
    adv 1: in a calculating manner; "he looked at her calculatingly"
  • charmingly
    adv 1: in a charming manner
  • condescendingly
    adv 1: with condescension; in a patronizing manner; "he treats his secretary condescendingly" [syn: condescendingly, patronizingly, patronisingly]
  • confusingly
    adv 1: in a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was bewilderingly unclear" [syn: bewilderingly, confusingly]
  • consolingly
    adv 1: in a comforting or consoling manner; "one part of a strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar form" [syn: comfortingly, consolingly]
  • contrastingly
    adv 1: in a contrasting manner; "contrastingly, both the rooms leading off it gave an immediate impression of being disgraced"
  • convincingly
    adv 1: in a convincing manner; "he argued convincingly" [ant: unconvincingly]
  • correspondingly
    adv 1: in a corresponding manner; "the temperature decreases correspondingly"
  • cunningly
    adv 1: in an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her perfect figure" [syn: cunningly, cutely] 2: in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully]
  • daringly
    adv 1: in an original manner; "daringly he took the first step" 2: in an adventurous manner; "daringly, he set out on a camping trip in East Africa"
  • dashingly
    adv 1: in a highly fashionable manner; "he was dashingly handsome"
  • dazzlingly
    adv 1: in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder
  • deceivingly
    adv 1: in a misleading way; "the exam looked deceptively easy" [syn: deceptively, deceivingly, misleadingly]
  • depressingly
    adv 1: in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree
  • despairingly
    adv 1: with desperation; "`Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly" [syn: despairingly, despondently]
  • disappointingly
    adv 1: in a disappointing manner; "the discoverer of argon, Sir William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary"
  • disapprovingly
    adv 1: showing disapproval; "he shook his head disapprovingly" [ant: approvingly]
  • disconcertingly
    adv 1: in a disturbing or embarrassing manner; "he drank some sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her"
  • discouragingly
    adv 1: in a discouraging manner; "the failure rate on the bar exam is discouragingly high" [ant: encouragingly]
  • disgustingly
    adv 1: in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree; "the beggar was disgustingly filthy" [syn: disgustingly, distastefully, revoltingly, sickeningly]
  • disparagingly
    adv 1: in a disparaging manner; "these mythological figures are described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'" [syn: disparagingly, slightingly]
  • disquietingly
    adv 1: in a disquieting manner; "the disquietingly close sounds of gunfire"
  • distressingly
    adv 1: unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious" [syn: painfully, distressingly]
  • disturbingly
    adv 1: in a disturbing manner; "the details of the kidnaper's letter had sounded disturbingly convincing"
  • sobbingly
    adv 1: with sobs; "sobbingly, the teenager admitted killing the baby"
  • agonizingly
    adv 1: in a very painful manner; "the progress was agonizingly slow" [syn: agonizingly, excruciatingly, torturously]
  • abidingly
  • absorbingly
  • appraisingly
  • astoundingly
  • begrudgingly
  • bouncingly
  • breathtakingly
  • calmingly
  • compellingly
  • damagingly
  • decreasingly
  • deludingly
  • deprecatingly
  • depreciatingly
  • deservingly
  • devastatingly
  • disarmingly
  • discerningly
  • dishearteningly
  • dotingly
  • doubtingly
  • bingley

See also kingly definition and kingly synonyms