Words that rhyme with preliminarily

  • airily
    adv 1: in a flippant manner; "he answered the reporters' questions flippantly"; "this cannot be airily explained to your children" [syn: flippantly, airily]
  • alee
    adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
  • architecturally
    adv 1: with regard to architecture; "this building is ugly, but architecturally interesting"
  • compulsorily
    adv 1: in a manner that cannot be evaded; "the ministry considers that contributions to such a fund should be met from voluntary donations rather than from rates compulsorily levied." [syn: compulsorily, obligatorily, mandatorily]
  • conjecturally
    adv 1: in a manner involving or inclined to conjecture and supposition
  • culturally
    adv 1: with regard to a culture; "culturally integrated"
  • cursorily
    adv 1: without taking pains; "he looked cursorily through the magazine" [syn: cursorily, quickly]
  • customarily
    adv 1: by custom; according to common practice; "children are custosby-the-waymarily expected to be seen but not heard"
  • evolutionarily
    adv 1: in an evolutionary way; from an evolutionary point of view; "the mutation has been evolutionarily successful"
  • extemporarily
    adv 1: without prior preparation; "he spoke extemporaneously" [syn: extemporaneously, extemporarily, extempore]
  • extraordinarily
    adv 1: extremely; "she was inordinately smart"; "it will be an extraordinarily painful step to negotiate" [syn: inordinately, extraordinarily]
  • generally
    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]
  • merrily
    adv 1: in a joyous manner; "they shouted happily" [syn: happily, merrily, mirthfully, gayly, blithely, jubilantly] [ant: unhappily]
  • militarily
    adv 1: with respect to the military; "on a militarily significant scale"
  • momentarily
    adv 1: for an instant or moment; "we paused momentarily before proceeding"; "a cardinal perched momently on the dogwood branch" [syn: momentarily, momently] 2: at any moment; "she will be with you momently" [syn: momentarily, momently]
  • naturally
    adv 1: as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" [syn: naturally, of course, course] [ant: unnaturally] 2: according to nature; by natural means; without artificial help; "naturally grown flowers" [ant: artificially, by artificial means, unnaturally] 3: through inherent nature; "he was naturally lazy" [syn: naturally, by nature] 4: in a natural or normal manner; "speak naturally and easily" [ant: unnaturally]
  • necessarily
    adv 1: in an essential manner; "such expenses are necessarily incurred" [syn: necessarily, needfully] [ant: unnecessarily] 2: in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs] 3: as a highly likely consequence; "we are necessarily bound for federalism in Europe"
  • ordinarily
    adv 1: under normal conditions; "usually she was late" [syn: normally, usually, unremarkably, commonly, ordinarily] [ant: outstandingly, remarkably, unco, unusually]
  • peripherally
    adv 1: in or at or near a periphery or according to a peripheral role or function or relationship [ant: centrally]
  • preternaturally
    adv 1: in a supernatural manner; "she was preternaturally beautiful" [syn: preternaturally, supernaturally]
  • primarily
    adv 1: for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies" [syn: chiefly, principally, primarily, mainly, in the main] 2: of primary import; "this is primarily a question of economics"; "it was in the first place a local matter" [syn: primarily, in the first place] [ant: secondarily]
  • secondarily
    adv 1: of secondary import; "secondarily affected" [ant: in the first place, primarily]
  • severally
    adv 1: apart from others; "the clothes were hung severally" [syn: independently, severally] 2: 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] 3: in the order given; "the brothers were called Felix and Max, respectively" [syn: respectively, severally]
  • structurally
    adv 1: with respect to structure; "structurally, the organization is healthy"
  • summarily
    adv 1: without delay; in a summary manner; "the suspected spy was summarily executed"
  • supernaturally
    adv 1: in a supernatural manner; "she was preternaturally beautiful" [syn: preternaturally, supernaturally]
  • temporarily
    adv 1: for a limited time only; not permanently; "he will work here temporarily"; "he was brought out of retirement temporarily"; "a power failure temporarily darkened the town" [ant: for good, permanently]
  • unnaturally
    adv 1: in an unnatural way; "his other arm lay across his chest, unnaturally, as if placed there deliberately, for a purpose" [ant: naturally] 2: not according to nature; not by natural means; "artificially induced conditions" [syn: artificially, unnaturally, by artificial means] [ant: naturally] 3: in a manner at variance with what is natural or normal; "The early Church not unnaturally adopted the position that failure to see the messianic character of his work was really caused by the people's own blindness" [ant: course, naturally, of course]
  • viscerally
    adv 1: in an unreasoning visceral manner [syn: viscerally, unreasoningly] 2: in the viscera; "he is bleeding viscerally"
  • voluntarily
    adv 1: out of your own free will; "he voluntarily submitted to the fingerprinting" [ant: involuntarily]
  • warily
    adv 1: in a wary manner; "the sailor watched the sky warily" [ant: unwarily]
  • wearily
    adv 1: in a weary manner; "he walked around tiredly" [syn: tiredly, wearily]
  • agriculturally
  • connaturally
  • illusorily
  • imaginarily
  • literarily
  • procedurally
  • sculpturally
  • texturally
  • unsavourily
  • allee
  • farrelly