Words that rhyme with metropoli

adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"

adv 1: with loyalty; in a loyal manner; "government will not be efficient unless the people as a whole accept leadership loyally and enthusiastically" [ant: disloyally]

n 1: (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller; "a monopoly on silver"; "when you have a monopoly you can ask any price you like" 2: exclusive control or possession of something; "They have no monopoly on intelligence" 3: a board game in which players try to gain a monopoly on real estate as pieces advance around the board according to the throw of a die

n 1: (economics) a market in which control over the supply of a commodity is in the hands of a small number of producers and each one can influence prices and affect competitors

adv 1: in a royal manner; "they were royally treated" [syn: royally, like kings, like royalty]

adv 1: in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely" [syn: securely, firmly] 2: in a confident and unselfconscious manner; "he acts very securely in front of the camera" [ant: insecurely] 3: in a manner free from fear or risk; "the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection" [ant: insecurely] 4: in an invulnerable manner; "the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held"

adv 1: so as to appear worn and threadbare or dilapidated; "a shabbily dressed man" 2: in a mean and ungenerous manner; "the two were haggling shabbily in the drawing-room"

adv 1: with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner; "Mr Khrushchev ostentatiously wooed and embraced Castro at the U.N. general assembly" [syn: ostentatiously, showily] 2: in a fancy colorful manner; "he dresses rather flamboyantly" [syn: flamboyantly, showily, flashily]

adv 1: in a skimpy manner; "a skimpily dressed woman"

adv 1: in a sleepy manner; "the two children who were snuggled sleepily in the back of the car"

adv 1: in a sloppy manner; "this work was done rather sloppily"

adv 1: in a grave and sober manner; "he walked soberly toward the altar" [syn: gravely, soberly, staidly]

adv 1: in a sour manner; "he complained sourly that the new rules only benefitted the managers"

adv 1: in a stable solid fixed manner; "the boulder was balanced stably at the edge of the canyon" 2: in a stable unchanging manner; "the death rate in Russia has been stably high"

adj 1: having a short growth of beard; "his stubbled chin" [syn: bestubbled, stubbled, stubbly]

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]

adv 1: as a verb; "he had a habit of using nouns verbally" 2: by means of language; "verbally expressive"

adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky] n 1: a member of the Industrial Workers of the World

n 1: city in central South Africa; center for diamond mining and diamond marketing

adj 1: exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor [syn: neighborly, neighbourly]

adv 1: in a somber manner; "`That's sure bad news,' said Dowd, somberly" [syn: somberly, sombrely]