Words that rhyme with optimistically

• altruistically 0
  adv 1: in an altruistic manner; "he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress" [syn: altruistically, selflessly]
• anachronistically 0
  adv 1: in an anachronistic manner; "let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically"
• antagonistically 0
  adv 1: in an antagonistic manner; "he behaves antagonistically toward his colleagues"
• artistically 0
  adv 1: in an artistic manner; "it was artistically decorated"
• bombastically 0
  adv 1: in a turgid manner; "he lectured bombastically about his theories" [syn: turgidly, bombastically] 2: in a grandiose manner; "the building was bombastically spacious" [syn: bombastically, grandiosely]
• caustically 0
  adv 1: in a caustic vitriolic manner; "he addressed her caustically" [syn: caustically, vitriolically]
• characteristically 0
  adv 1: in characteristic manner; "he arrived characteristically late" [ant: uncharacteristically]
• domestically 0
  adv 1: with respect to the internal affairs of a government; "domestically, the president proposes a more moderate economic policy" 2: with respect to home or family; "the housewife bored us with her domestically limited conversation"
• drastically 0
  adv 1: in a drastic manner
• ecclesiastically 0
  adv 1: in an ecclesiastic manner; "the candidate was ecclesiastically endorsed"
• egotistically 0
  adv 1: in an egotistical manner; "he behaved egotistically" [syn: egotistically, selfishly] [ant: unselfishly]
• enthusiastically 0
  adv 1: with enthusiasm; in an enthusiastic manner; "they discussed the question enthusiastically" [ant: unenthusiastically] 2: in a lavish or enthusiastic manner; "he extolled her virtues sky-high" [syn: sky-high, enthusiastically]
• euphemistically 0
  adv 1: in a euphemistic manner; "his violent death was euphemistically referred to as a passing away"
• fantastically 0
  adv 1: exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well" [syn: fabulously, fantastically, incredibly]
• journalistically 0
  adv 1: by journalists; "he is being journalistically crucified in his own country"
• linguistically 0
  adv 1: with respect to the science of linguistics; "linguistically interesting data" 2: with respect to language; "linguistically impaired children"; "a lingually diverse population" [syn: linguistically, lingually]
• majestically 0
  adv 1: in a majestic manner; "flamingoes walk majestically through the marshes"
• masochistically 0
  adv 1: in a masochistic manner; "masochistically he insisted on an even greater workload"
• materialistically 0
  adv 1: in a materialistic manner; "one should not approach life materialistically"
• mechanistically 0
  adv 1: in a mechanistic manner; "Handel achieves a huge breadth of musical thought when composing almost mechanistically in the least weighty of styles"
• pessimistically 0
  adv 1: with pessimism; in a pessimistic manner; "he evaluated his chances for survival rather pessimistically" [ant: optimistically]
• plastically 0
  adv 1: in a plastic manner; "he used the clay plastically"
• prickly 0
  adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish] 2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]
• quickly 0
  adv 1: with rapid movements; "he works quickly" [syn: quickly, rapidly, speedily, chop-chop, apace] [ant: easy, slow, slowly, tardily] 2: with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!" [syn: promptly, quickly, quick] 3: without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine" [syn: cursorily, quickly]
• realistically 0
  adv 1: in a realistic manner; "let's look at the situation realistically" [ant: unrealistically] 2: in a realistic manner; "the figure was realistically painted"
• sarcastically 0
  adv 1: in a sarcastic manner; "`Ah, now we're getting at the truth,' he interposed sarcastically" [syn: sarcastically, sardonically]
• scholastically 0
  adv 1: with respect to scholastic activities; "scholastically apt"
• sickly 0
  adj 1: unhealthy looking [syn: sallow, sickly] 2: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]
• slickly 0
  adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]
• statistically 0
  adv 1: with respect to statistics; "this is statistically impossible"
• stochastically 0
  adv 1: by stochastic means; "we estimated the answer stochastically"
• strictly 0
  adv 1: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business" [syn: strictly, purely] 2: in a stringent manner; "the laws are stringently enforced"; "stringently controlled" [syn: strictly, stringently] 3: in a rigorous manner; "he had been trained rigorously by the monks" [syn: rigorously, strictly]
• stylistically 0
  adv 1: in a rhetorically stylistic manner; "stylistically complex"
• synergistically 0
  adv 1: (of group) in a synergistic or cooperative manner 2: (of drugs or muscles) in a synergistic or interactive manner
• thickly 0
  adv 1: spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue; "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly" 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] 3: with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn: thickly, thick] [ant: thin, thinly] 4: with thickness; in a thick manner; "spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt" [ant: lightly, thinly] 5: in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn: thick, thickly]
• uncharacteristically 0
  adv 1: in uncharacteristic manner; "he was uncharacteristically cool" [ant: characteristically]
• unenthusiastically 0
  adv 1: without enthusiasm; showing no enthusiasm; "the children opened the presents unenthusiastically" [ant: enthusiastically]
• unrealistically 0
  adv 1: in an unrealistic manner; "his expectations were unrealistically high" [ant: realistically]
• agonistically 0
• aphoristically 0
• atheistically 0
• capitalistically 0
• chauvinistically 0
• communistically 0
• deistically 0
• deterministically 0
• diagnostically 0
• dualistically 0
• dynastically 0
• dyslogistically 0
• egoistically 0
• elastically 0
• eulogistically 0
• evangelistically 0
• expressionistically 0
• fatalistically 0
• floristically 0
• futuristically 0
• hedonistically 0
• heuristically 0
• holistically 0
• iconoclastically 0
• idealistically 0
• imperialistically 0
• impressionistically 0
• inartistically 0
• logistically 0
• militaristically 0
• monastically 0
• moralistically 0
• nationalistically 0
• naturalistically 0
• opportunistically 0
• periphrastically 0
• pluralistically 0
• propagandistically 0
• rationalistically 0
• ritualistically 0
• rustically 0
• sadistically 0
• simplistically 0
• socialistically 0
• spastically 0
• surrealistically 0
• syllogistically 0

See also optimistically definition