Words that rhyme with mostly

• beastly 3
  adv 1: in a beastly manner; "she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law" adj 1: very unpleasant; "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket" [syn: beastly, hellish, god-awful] 2: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal]
• adversely 0
  adv 1: in an adverse manner; "she was adversely affected by the new regulations"
• aimlessly 0
  adv 1: without aim; in an aimless manner; "he wandered around aimlessly"
• artlessly 0
  adv 1: in a crude and unskilled manner; "an inexpertly constructed lean-to" [syn: artlessly, crudely, inexpertly] 2: in an ingenuous manner; "she answered the judge's questions artlessly" [syn: artlessly, ingenuously]
• barefacedly 0
  adv 1: without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, shamelessly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly]
• belligerently 0
  adv 1: with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently" [syn: belligerently, hostilely]
• benevolently 0
  adv 1: in a benevolent manner; "she looked on benevolently" [ant: malevolently]
• blamelessly 0
  adv 1: in an irreproachable and blameless manner; "she had lived blamelessly until she met this man" [syn: irreproachably, blamelessly]
• boundlessly 0
  adv 1: without bounds; "he is infinitely wealthy" [syn: boundlessly, immeasurably, infinitely]
• breathlessly 0
  adv 1: in a breathless manner; "she spoke breathlessly"
• ceaselessly 0
  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]
• chastely 0
  adv 1: in a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: chastely, virtuously]
• closely 0
  adv 1: in a close relation or position in time or space; "the onsets were closely timed"; "houses set closely together"; "was closely involved in monitoring daily progress" 2: in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard" [syn: close, closely, tight] 3: in a close manner; "the two phenomena are intimately connected"; "the person most nearly concerned" [syn: closely, intimately, nearly]
• coherently 0
  adv 1: in a coherent manner; "she could not talk coherently after the accident" [ant: incoherently]
• concurrently 0
  adv 1: overlapping in duration; "concurrently with the conference an exhibition of things associated with Rutherford was held"; "going to school and holding a job at the same time" [syn: concurrently, at the same time]
• consequently 0
  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: as a consequence; "he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held" [syn: consequently, therefore]
• conversely 0
  adv 1: with the terms of the relation reversed; "conversely, not all women are mothers"
• costly 0
  adj 1: entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory" [syn: dearly-won, costly] 2: having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant" [syn: costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricy]
• daftly 0
  adv 1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to behave quite dottily" [syn: daftly, dottily, balmily, nuttily, wackily]
• dauntlessly 0
  adv 1: without fear; "fearlessly, he led the troops into combat" [syn: fearlessly, dauntlessly, intrepidly] [ant: fearfully]
• deftly 0
  adv 1: with dexterity; in a dexterous manner; "dextrously he untied the knots" [syn: dexterously, dextrously, deftly] 2: in a deft manner; "Lois deftly removed her scarf"
• densely 0
  adv 1: in a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone" [syn: dumbly, densely, obtusely] 2: in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area" [syn: densely, thickly] [ant: thinly]
• deucedly 0
  adv 1: (used as intensives) extremely; "she was madly in love"; "deadly dull"; "deadly earnest"; "deucedly clever"; "insanely jealous" [syn: madly, insanely, deadly, deucedly, devilishly]
• differently 0
  adv 1: in another and different manner; "very soon you will know differently"; "she thought otherwise"; "there is no way out other than the fire escape"; [syn: differently, otherwise, other than]
• dishonestly 0
  adv 1: in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend" [syn: dishonestly, venally, deceitfully] [ant: aboveboard, honestly]
• diversely 0
  adv 1: in diverse ways; "the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants"; "the speakers treated the subject most diversely" [syn: variously, diversely, multifariously]
• doubtlessly 0
  adv 1: without doubt; certainly; "it's undoubtedly very beautiful" [syn: undoubtedly, doubtless, doubtlessly]
• earnestly 0
  adv 1: in a serious manner; "talking earnestly with his son"; "she started studying snakes in earnest"; "a play dealing seriously with the question of divorce" [syn: seriously, earnestly, in earnest]
• eloquently 0
  adv 1: with eloquence; "he expressed his ideas eloquently" [syn: eloquently, articulately] [ant: inarticulately, ineloquently] 2: in an articulate manner; "he argued articulately for his plan" [syn: articulately, eloquently] [ant: inarticulately]
• excellently 0
  adv 1: extremely well; "he did splendidly in the exam"; "we got along famously" [syn: excellently, magnificently, splendidly, famously]
• exuberantly 0
  adv 1: in an exuberant manner; "the exuberantly baroque decoration of the church" [syn: exuberantly, riotously] 2: in an ebullient manner; "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression" [syn: ebulliently, exuberantly, expansively]
• falsely 0
  adv 1: in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened" 2: in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" [syn: falsely, incorrectly]
• firstly 0
  adv 1: before anything else; "first we must consider the garter snake" [syn: first, firstly, foremost, first of all, first off]
• flagrantly 0
  adv 1: in a flagrant manner; "he is flagrantly disregarding the law"
• fraudulently 0
  adv 1: in a dishonest and fraudulent manner; "this money was fraudulently obtained"
• gallantly 0
  adv 1: in a gallant manner; "he gallantly offered to take her home" [syn: gallantly, chivalrously] [ant: unchivalrously]
• ghastly 0
  adj 1: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick] 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral]
• ghostly 0
  adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]
• grandiloquently 0
  adv 1: in a rhetorically grandiloquent manner; "the orator spoke magniloquently" [syn: grandiloquently, magniloquently]
• grossly 0
  adv 1: in a gross manner
• honestly 0
  adv 1: (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly, candidly, frankly] 2: in an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything" [syn: honestly, aboveboard] [ant: deceitfully, dishonestly, venally]
• ignorantly 0
  adv 1: in ignorance; in an ignorant manner; "they lived ignorantly in their own small world"
• incoherently 0
  adv 1: in an incoherent manner; "he talked incoherently when he drank too much" [ant: coherently]
• inconsequently 0
  adv 1: lacking consequence; "`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'" [syn: inconsequentially, inconsequently] [ant: consequentially]
• indifferently 0
  adv 1: with indifference; in an indifferent manner; "she shrugged indifferently"
• indolently 0
  adv 1: in an indolent manner; "he lives indolently with his relatives"
• infrequently 0
  adv 1: not many times; "in your 1850 church you not infrequently find a dramatic contrast between the sumptuous appointments of the building itself and the inhuman barrack-like living conditions in the church room" [ant: frequently, oft, often, oftentimes, ofttimes]
• inherently 0
  adv 1: in an inherent manner; "the subject matter is sexual activity of any overt kind, which is depicted as inherently desirable and exciting"
• insolently 0
  adv 1: in an insolent manner; "he had replied insolently to his superiors"
• intolerantly 0
  adv 1: in an intolerant manner [ant: tolerantly] 2: in a narrow-minded manner; "his illiberally biased way of thinking" [syn: intolerantly, illiberally]
• irreverently 0
  adv 1: without respect; "the student irreverently mimicked the teacher in his presence" [ant: reverentially, reverently] 2: in an irreverent manner; "in the seventeenth century England had known fifty years of doctrinal quarrels and civil war; clergymen had been turned from their cures, and churches irreverently used"
• jocosely 0
  adv 1: with humor; "they tried to deal with this painful subject jocularly" [syn: jocosely, jocular]
• jubilantly 0
  adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]
• justly 0
  adv 1: with honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time" [syn: rightly, justly, justifiedly] [ant: unjustly] 2: in accordance with moral or social standards; "that serves him right"; "do right by him" [syn: justly, right]
• lastly 0
  adv 1: the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values" [syn: last, lastly, in conclusion, finally]
• laxly 0
  adv 1: in a permissively lenient manner; "he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime" [syn: laxly, leniently]
• lonely 0
  adj 1: lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" [syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 2: marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar" [syn: lonely, lonesome] 3: characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk" [syn: lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 4: devoid of creatures; "a lonely crossroads"; "a solitary retreat"; "a trail leading to an unfrequented lake" [syn: lonely, solitary, unfrequented]
• malevolently 0
  adv 1: in a malevolent manner; "she gossips malevolently" [ant: benevolently]
• manifestly 0
  adv 1: unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain]
• modestly 0
  adv 1: with modesty; in a modest manner; "the dissertation was entitled, modestly, `Remarks about a play by Shakespeare'" [ant: immodestly]
• moistly 0
  adv 1: in a damp manner; "a scarf was tied round her head but the rebellious curl had escaped and hung damply over her left eye" [syn: damply, moistly]
• morosely 0
  adv 1: in a morose manner; "he fell morosely on the bed"
• nonchalantly 0
  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] 2: in an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines" [syn: casually, nonchalantly]
• opulently 0
  adv 1: in a sumptuous and opulent manner; "this government building is sumptuously appointed" [syn: sumptuously, opulently]
• petulantly 0
  adv 1: in a petulant manner; "he said testily; `Go away!'" [syn: testily, irritably, petulantly, pettishly]
• poignantly 0
  adv 1: in a poignant or touching manner; "she spoke poignantly" [syn: affectingly, poignantly, touchingly]
• preponderantly 0
  adv 1: much greater in number or influence; "the patients are predominantly indigenous" [syn: predominantly, preponderantly]
• priestly 0
  adj 1: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal] 2: befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood; "priestly dedication to the people of his parish" [syn: priestly, priestlike] [ant: unpriestly]
• princely 0
  adj 1: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous] 2: having the rank of or befitting a prince; "a princely bearing"; "princely manner"
• recurrently 0
  adv 1: in a recurrent manner
• repellently 0
  adv 1: in a repellent manner; "repellently fat" [syn: repellently, repellingly]
• reverently 0
  adv 1: with reverence; in a reverent manner; "he gazed reverently at the handiwork" [syn: reverentially, reverently] [ant: irreverently]
• shamefacedly 0
  adv 1: in a shamefaced manner; "quarrels and dissensions ensued among the cast, most of whom hurriedly and shamefacedly handed over their parts to understudies"
• silently 0
  adv 1: without speaking; "he sat mutely next to her" [syn: mutely, wordlessly, silently, taciturnly]
• softly 0
  adv 1: with low volume; "speak softly but carry a big stick"; "she spoke quietly to the child"; "the radio was playing softly" [syn: softly, quietly] [ant: aloud, loud, loudly] 2: in a manner that is pleasing to the senses; "she smiled softly" 3: with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead" [syn: lightly, softly, gently] 4: used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly [syn: piano, softly] [ant: forte, loudly]
• somnolently 0
  adv 1: in a drowsy manner; "`Time to get up,' she said drowsily" [syn: drowsily, somnolently]
• steadfastly 0
  adv 1: with resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm" [syn: firm, firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly]
• subsequently 0
  adv 1: happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here later"; "it didn't happen until afterward"; "two hours after that" [syn: subsequently, later, afterwards, afterward, after, later on]
• swiftly 0
  adv 1: in a swift manner; "she moved swiftly" [syn: swiftly, fleetly]
• tensely 0
  adv 1: in a tense manner; "he sat down tensely"
• tersely 0
  adv 1: in a short and concise manner; "a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds" [syn: telegraphically, tersely]
• tolerantly 0
  adv 1: in a tolerant manner; "he reacts rather tolerantly toward his son's juvenile behavior" [ant: intolerantly]
• truculently 0
  adv 1: in an aggressively truculent manner; "they strive for security by truculently asserting their own interests" 2: in a defiantly truculent manner; "the boy looked up truculently at his teacher"
• turbulently 0
  adv 1: in a turbulent manner; with turbulence; "the river rolls turbulently boiling" 2: in a stormy or violent manner [syn: stormily, turbulently, passionately]
• unjustly 0
  adv 1: in an unjust manner; "he was unjustly singled out for punishment" [ant: justifiedly, justly, rightly]
• vastly 0
  adv 1: to an exceedingly great extent or degree; "He had vastly overestimated his resources"; "was immensely more important to the project as a scientist than as an administrator" [syn: vastly, immensely]
• vigilantly 0
  adv 1: in a watchful manner [syn: vigilantly, watchfully]
• violently 0
  adv 1: in a violent manner; "they attacked violently" [ant: nonviolently]
• virulently 0
  adv 1: in a virulent manner; "an old woman advanced a few paces to shake her fist virulently in my face"
• christly 0
  adj 1: resembling or showing the spirit of Christ [syn: christlike, christly]
• priestley 0
  n 1: English chemist who isolated many gases and discovered oxygen (independently of Scheele) (1733-1804) [syn: Priestley, Joseph Priestley]
• ambivalently 0
• arrantly 0
• augustly 0
• bellicosely 0
• brainlessly 0
• covalently 0
• deathlessly 0
• delinquently 0
• difficultly 0

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