Words that rhyme with melany

adv 1: in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably" [syn: acceptably, tolerably, so- so] [ant: intolerably, unacceptably]

adv 1: without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [syn: by chance, accidentally, circumstantially, unexpectedly] [ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely] 2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally] 3: without intention; in an unintentional manner; "she hit him unintentionally" [syn: unintentionally, accidentally] [ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely]

adv 1: according to what has been alleged; "he was on trial for allegedly murdering his wife"

n 1: pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; "a well trained staff saw to the agreeableness of our accommodations"; "he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age" [syn: agreeableness, amenity] [ant: disagreeableness]

n 1: any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: anemone, windflower] 2: marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: sea anemone, anemone]

adv 1: to any degree or extent; "it isn't any better" adj 1: one or some or every or all without specification; "give me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left"; "any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't want"; "no milk whatsoever is left" [syn: any(a), whatever, whatsoever]

n 1: surgical removal of the vermiform appendix [syn: appendectomy, appendicectomy]

n 1: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control]

n 1: the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms; the effort to understand biology within the context of chemistry

adv 1: in a breathless manner; "she spoke breathlessly"

n 1: the use of brief expressions 2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience]

adv 1: in or near or toward a center or according to a central role or function; "The theater is centrally located" [ant: peripherally]

adv 1: with chemicals;"chemically fertilized" 2: with respect to chemistry; "chemically different substances"; "chemically related"

n 1: the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions [syn: chemistry, chemical science] 2: the chemical composition and properties of a substance or object; "the chemistry of soil" 3: the way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together" [syn: chemistry, interpersonal chemistry, alchemy]

n 1: good weather with comfortable temperatures [syn: mildness, clemency] 2: leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court" [syn: clemency, mercifulness, mercy]

n 1: the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers" [syn: complexity, complexness] [ant: simpleness, simplicity]

n 1: the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 [syn: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland] 2: a union of political organizations [syn: confederation, confederacy, federation] 3: a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose [syn: conspiracy, confederacy] 4: a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act [syn: conspiracy, confederacy]

adv 1: easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election" [syn: credibly, believably, plausibly, probably] [ant: implausibly, improbably, incredibly, unbelievably]

n 1: the amount per unit size [syn: density, denseness] 2: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution]

n 1: the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else [syn: dependence, dependance, dependency] 2: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation] 3: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency]

n 1: someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies [syn: deputy, deputy sheriff] 2: an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent [syn: deputy, lieutenant] 3: a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France) 4: a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others [syn: deputy, surrogate]

adv 1: with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash" [syn: urgently, desperately] 2: in intense despair; "the child clung desperately to her mother"

n 1: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate] 2: the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate] 3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]

n 1: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance] 2: an event that departs from expectations [syn: discrepancy, variance, variant]

adv 1: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, awfully, horribly] 2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully]

adj 1: of a very dark black [syn: ebon, ebony] n 1: a very dark black [syn: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black] 2: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys 3: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: ebony, ebony tree, Diospyros ebenum]

n 1: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus] 2: a state of elated bliss [syn: ecstasy, rapture] 3: street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine [syn: Adam, ecstasy, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drug]

n 1: a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: elegy, lament]

n 1: a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work 2: an ambassador and his entourage collectively

n 1: understanding and entering into another's feelings

adv 1: continuing forever without end; "there are infinitely many possibilities" [syn: infinitely, endlessly] [ant: finitely] 2: with unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste" [syn: endlessly, ceaselessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly, continuously] 3: (spatial sense) without bounds; "the Nubian desert seemed to stretch out before them endlessly" 4: all the time; seemingly without stopping; "a theological student with whom I argued interminably"; "her nagging went on endlessly" [syn: interminably, endlessly]

n 1: an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn" 2: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] 3: any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy" 4: a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years" [syn: foe, enemy] [ant: ally, friend]

n 1: a state of deep-seated ill-will [syn: hostility, enmity, antagonism] 2: the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility" [syn: hostility, enmity, ill will]

n 1: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

n 1: (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" [syn: information, selective information, entropy] 2: (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; "entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity" [syn: randomness, entropy, S]

n 1: the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it 2: the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation 3: conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim" [syn: fairness, equity] [ant: inequity, unfairness]

adv 1: to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common; "he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger" [syn: particularly, peculiarly, especially, specially] 2: in a special manner; "a specially arranged dinner" [syn: specially, especially]

adv 1: in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature; "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person" [syn: basically, fundamentally, essentially]

adv 1: after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay [syn: finally, eventually]

n 1: an expectation [syn: anticipation, expectancy] 2: something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" [syn: anticipation, expectancy]

n 1: an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" [syn: extremity, appendage, member] 2: an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease) 3: the greatest or utmost degree; "the extremity of despair" 4: the outermost or farthest region or point 5: that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso

adv 1: by federal government; "it's federally regulated"

n 1: a serious crime (such as murder or arson)

n 1: accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal 2: the quality of being faithful [syn: fidelity, faithfulness] [ant: infidelity, unfaithfulness]

adv 1: with flexibility; "`Come whenever you are free,' he said flexibly" [ant: inflexibly]

adv 1: usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here" [syn: by and large, generally, more often than not, mostly] 2: without distinction of one from others; "he is interested in snakes in general" [syn: generally, in general, in the main] [ant: specifically] 3: without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly" [syn: broadly, loosely, broadly speaking, generally] [ant: narrowly]

n 1: the chemistry of the earth's crust

adj 1: relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven; "celestial beings"; "heavenly hosts" [syn: celestial, heavenly] 2: of or relating to the sky; "celestial map"; "a heavenly body" [syn: celestial, heavenly] 3: of or belonging to heaven or god [ant: earthly]

adv 1: to a considerable degree; "he relied heavily on others' data" [syn: heavily, to a great extent] 2: in a heavy-footed manner; "he walked heavily up the three flights to his room" 3: with great force; "she hit her arm heavily against the wall" 4: in a manner designed for heavy duty; "a heavily constructed car"; "heavily armed" 5: slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" [syn: heavy, heavily] 6: in a labored manner; "he breathed heavily" 7: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" [syn: heavily, intemperately, hard] [ant: lightly]

n 1: the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system"

adv 1: in a helpful manner; "the subtitles are helpfully conveyed" [ant: unhelpfully]

adv 1: in a helpless manner; "the crowd watched him helplessly" [syn: helplessly, impotently, unable to help]

n 1: the biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next 2: the total of inherited attributes [syn: heredity, genetic endowment]

n 1: surgical removal of the uterus

n 1: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army" [syn: identity, personal identity, individuality] 2: the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known; "geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it"; "it was too dark to determine his identity"; "she guessed the identity of his lover" 3: an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1" [syn: identity, identity element, identity operator] 4: exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests" [syn: identity, identicalness, indistinguishability]

adv 1: with unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste" [syn: endlessly, ceaselessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly, continuously] 2: without interruption; "the world is constantly changing" [syn: constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantly]

adv 1: introducing a different topic; in point of fact; "incidentally, I won't go to the party" [syn: by the way, by the bye, incidentally, apropos] 2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally]

adv 1: not easy to believe; "behind you the coastal hills plunge to the incredibly blue sea backed by the Turkish mountains" [syn: incredibly, improbably, implausibly, unbelievably] [ant: believably, credibly, plausibly, probably] 2: exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well" [syn: fabulously, fantastically, incredibly]

n 1: protection against future loss [syn: indemnity, insurance] 2: legal exemption from liability for damages 3: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress]

n 1: injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards [syn: unfairness, inequity] [ant: equity, fairness]

adv 1: in an inflexible manner; "`You will--because you must!,' Madam told her inflexibly" [ant: flexibly]

n 1: an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; "the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development"; "he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia" [syn: integrity, unity, wholeness] 2: moral soundness; "he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business"; "they admired his scrupulous professional integrity"

n 1: the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation); "he adjusted the intensity of the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength" [syn: intensity, strength, intensity level] 2: high level or degree; the property of being intense [syn: intensity, intensiveness] 3: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction); "the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume, loudness, intensity] [ant: softness] 4: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness]

adv 1: without fear; "fearlessly, he led the troops into combat" [syn: fearlessly, dauntlessly, intrepidly] [ant: fearfully]

adv 1: with jealousy; "he guarded his privacy jealously" 2: with jealousy; in an envious manner; "he looked at his friend's new car jealously" [syn: enviously, covetously, jealously]

n 1: a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) [syn: jealousy, green-eyed monster] 2: zealous vigilance; "cherish their official political freedom with fierce jealousy"-Paul Blanshard

n 1: (law) a gift of personal property by will [syn: bequest, legacy]

n 1: chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae [syn: leprosy, Hansen's disease]

n 1: duration of service; "her longevity as a star"; "had unusual longevity in the company" [syn: longevity, length of service] 2: the property of being long-lived [syn: longevity, seniority]

n 1: surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor

adv 1: involving medical practice; "medically trained nurses"; "medically correct treatment"

adv 1: in your mind; "he suffered mentally"

n 1: the condition of being essential or indispensable 2: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential, nonessential]

n 1: the state of not existing [syn: nonexistence, nonentity] [ant: being, beingness, existence] 2: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity]

adv 1: from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned"; "had been ostensibly frank as to his purpose while really concealing it"-Thomas Hardy; "on the face of it the problem seems minor" [syn: apparently, seemingly, ostensibly, on the face of it]

n 1: the class of peasants

n 1: an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning

adj 1: having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal [syn: pedigree(a), pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred] n 1: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock] 2: line of descent of a purebred animal 3: ancestry of a purebred animal [syn: pedigree, bloodline]

n 1: the act of punishing [syn: punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation] 2: a payment required for not fulfilling a contract 3: the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition; "neglected his health and paid the penalty" [ant: advantage, reward] 4: (games) a handicap or disadvantage that is imposed on a competitor (or a team) for an infraction of the rules of the game

n 1: trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

adv 1: in a cheerful manner; "`I'll do the dishes,' he said pleasantly" [syn: pleasantly, cheerily, sunnily] 2: in an enjoyable manner; "we spent a pleasantly lazy afternoon" [syn: pleasantly, agreeably, enjoyably] [ant: disagreeably, unpleasantly]

n 1: an agreeable or amusing remark; "they exchange pleasantries"

adv 1: with a possibility of becoming actual; "he is potentially dangerous"; "potentially useful"

adv 1: more readily or willingly; "clean it well, preferably with warm water"; "I'd rather be in Philadelphia"; "I'd sooner die than give up" [syn: preferably, sooner, rather]

n 1: the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus [syn: pregnancy, gestation, maternity]

adv 1: in the near future; "the doctor will soon be here"; "the book will appear shortly"; "she will arrive presently"; "we should have news before long" [syn: soon, shortly, presently, before long] 2: at this time or period; now; "he is presently our ambassador to the United Nations"; "currently they live in Connecticut" [syn: presently, currently]

adv 1: without much difficulty; "these snakes can be identified readily" 2: in a punctual manner; "he did his homework promptly" [syn: promptly, readily, pronto]

n 1: directions for making something [syn: recipe, formula]

adv 1: by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay" [syn: unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alas] [ant: as luck would have it, fortuitously, fortunately, luckily]

n 1: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: redress, remedy, remediation] 2: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic] v 1: set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [syn: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend] 2: provide relief for; "remedy his illness" [syn: remedy, relieve]

adv 1: to a tolerably worthy extent; "he did respectably well for his age" [syn: respectably, creditably] 2: in a decent and morally reputable manner; "the film ends with the middle-aged romancers respectably married"

adv 1: in a respectful manner; "might I respectfully suggest to the Town Council that they should adopt a policy of masterly inactivity?" [ant: disrespectfully]

n 1: unrestrained merrymaking [syn: revel, revelry]

adv 1: in the second place; "second, we must consider the economy" [syn: second, secondly]

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]

adv 1: apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly" [syn: individually, separately, singly, severally, one by one, on an individual basis]

adv 1: in a consecutive manner; "we numbered the papers consecutively" [syn: consecutive, sequentially]

n 1: a disposition free from stress or emotion [syn: repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility] 2: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis]

n 1: East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil [syn: sesame, benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum]

adj 1: being ten more than sixty [syn: seventy, 70, lxx] n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and seven [syn: seventy, 70, LXX]