Words that rhyme with periphrastically

adv 1: in an altruistic manner; "he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress" [syn: altruistically, selflessly]

adv 1: in an anachronistic manner; "let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically"

adv 1: in an antagonistic manner; "he behaves antagonistically toward his colleagues"

adv 1: in an artistic manner; "it was artistically decorated"

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]

adv 1: in a caustic vitriolic manner; "he addressed her caustically" [syn: caustically, vitriolically]

adv 1: in characteristic manner; "he arrived characteristically late" [ant: uncharacteristically]

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"

adv 1: in a drastic manner

adv 1: in an ecclesiastic manner; "the candidate was ecclesiastically endorsed"

adv 1: in an egotistical manner; "he behaved egotistically" [syn: egotistically, selfishly] [ant: unselfishly]

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]

adv 1: in a euphemistic manner; "his violent death was euphemistically referred to as a passing away"

adv 1: exceedingly; extremely; "she plays fabulously well" [syn: fabulously, fantastically, incredibly]

adv 1: by journalists; "he is being journalistically crucified in his own country"

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]

adv 1: in a majestic manner; "flamingoes walk majestically through the marshes"

adv 1: in a masochistic manner; "masochistically he insisted on an even greater workload"

adv 1: in a materialistic manner; "one should not approach life materialistically"

adv 1: in a mechanistic manner; "Handel achieves a huge breadth of musical thought when composing almost mechanistically in the least weighty of styles"

adv 1: with optimism; in an optimistic manner; "`We have a good chance of winning,' he exclaimed optimistically" [ant: pessimistically]

adv 1: with pessimism; in a pessimistic manner; "he evaluated his chances for survival rather pessimistically" [ant: optimistically]

adv 1: in a plastic manner; "he used the clay plastically"

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"

adv 1: in a sarcastic manner; "`Ah, now we're getting at the truth,' he interposed sarcastically" [syn: sarcastically, sardonically]

adv 1: with respect to scholastic activities; "scholastically apt"

adv 1: with respect to statistics; "this is statistically impossible"

adv 1: by stochastic means; "we estimated the answer stochastically"

adv 1: in a rhetorically stylistic manner; "stylistically complex"

adv 1: (of group) in a synergistic or cooperative manner 2: (of drugs or muscles) in a synergistic or interactive manner

adv 1: in uncharacteristic manner; "he was uncharacteristically cool" [ant: characteristically]

adv 1: without enthusiasm; showing no enthusiasm; "the children opened the presents unenthusiastically" [ant: enthusiastically]

adv 1: in an unrealistic manner; "his expectations were unrealistically high" [ant: realistically]