Words that rhyme with quickly

  • academically
    adv 1: in regard to academic matters; "academically, this is a good school"
  • acoustically
    adv 1: with respect to acoustics; "acoustically ill-equipped studios"
  • aesthetically
    adv 1: in a tasteful way; "this building is aesthetically very pleasing" [syn: aesthetically, esthetically]
  • algebraically
    adv 1: in an algebraic manner; "algebraically determined"
  • allegorically
    adv 1: in an allegorical manner; "the play ended allegorically"
  • alphabetically
    adv 1: in alphabetical order; "the list was arranged alphabetically"
  • altruistically
    adv 1: in an altruistic manner; "he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress" [syn: altruistically, selflessly]
  • analytically
    adv 1: by virtue of analysis; "assuming that the distinction is maintained one may ask which is to be analytically prior?"
  • anatomically
    adv 1: with respect to anatomy; "anatomically correct"
  • angelically
    adv 1: like an angel; "the child was sleeping angelically"
  • antithetically
    adv 1: with antithesis; in an antithetical manner
  • apathetically
    adv 1: in an apathetic manner; "she behaves apathetically these days"
  • apologetically
    adv 1: in an apologetic manner; "he spoke apologetically about his past"
  • aristocratically
    adv 1: in an aristocratic manner; "they behaved aristocratically"
  • arithmetically
    adv 1: with respect to arithmetic; "this problem is arithmetically easy"
  • artistically
    adv 1: in an artistic manner; "it was artistically decorated"
  • ascetically
    adv 1: in an ascetic manner; "she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself"
  • astronomically
    adv 1: enormously; "the bill was astronomically high"
  • asymmetrically
    adv 1: in an asymmetrical manner; "they were asymmetrically arranged" [syn: asymmetrically, unsymmetrically] [ant: symmetrically]
  • authentically
    adv 1: genuinely; with authority; "it is authentically British" [syn: authentically, genuinely]
  • autocratically
    adv 1: in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator; "this manager acts dictatorially toward his colleagues" [syn: dictatorially, autocratically, magisterially] 2: in an autocratic manner; "the Czars ruled Russia autocratically"
  • automatically
    adv 1: in a reflex manner; "he answered automatically" 2: in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism; "this door opens mechanically" [syn: mechanically, automatically]
  • axiomatically
    adv 1: on the basis of axioms; "this is axiomatically given"
  • basically
    adv 1: in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature; "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person" [syn: basically, fundamentally, essentially]
  • biologically
    adv 1: with respect to biology; "biologically related"
  • biweekly
    adv 1: twice a week; "he called home semiweekly" [syn: semiweekly, biweekly] 2: every two weeks; "he visited his cousins fortnightly" [syn: fortnightly, biweekly] adj 1: occurring every two weeks [syn: fortnightly, biweekly] 2: occurring twice a week [syn: semiweekly, biweekly] n 1: a periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year)
  • bleakly
    adv 1: without hope; "he wondered bleakly"
  • bombastically
    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]
  • bureaucratically
    adv 1: in a bureaucratic manner; "his bureaucratically petty behavior annoyed her" 2: with respect to bureaucracy; "it's bureaucratically complicated"
  • catalytically
    adv 1: by catalytic action; in a catalytic manner; "catalytically stabilized combustion of propane"
  • categorically
    adv 1: in an unqualified manner; "he flatly denied the charges" [syn: flatly, categorically, unconditionally]
  • caustically
    adv 1: in a caustic vitriolic manner; "he addressed her caustically" [syn: caustically, vitriolically]
  • characteristically
    adv 1: in characteristic manner; "he arrived characteristically late" [ant: uncharacteristically]
  • chronically
    adv 1: in a habitual and longstanding manner; "smoking chronically" [syn: chronically, inveterate] 2: in a slowly developing and long lasting manner; "chronically ill persons" [ant: acutely]
  • chronologically
    adv 1: with respect to chronology; "he is chronologically older"
  • classically
    adv 1: in the manner of Greek and Roman culture; "this exercise develops a classically shaped body"
  • cryptically
    adv 1: in a cryptic manner; "we will meet again," he said cryptically [syn: cryptically, enigmatically, mysteriously]
  • cryptographically
    adv 1: in a cryptographic manner
  • darkly
    adv 1: without light; "the river was sliding darkly under the mist" [syn: darkly, in darkness] 2: in a dark glowering menacing manner; "he stared darkly at her"
  • democratically
    adv 1: in a democratic manner; based on democratic principles; "it was decided democratically"; "democratically elected government" [ant: undemocratically]
  • diabolically
    adv 1: as a devil; in an evil manner; "his writing could be diabolically satiric" [syn: diabolically, devilishly, fiendishly]
  • diagrammatically
    adv 1: in a diagrammatic manner; "the landscape unit drawn diagrammatically illustrates the gentle rolling relief, with a peat-filled basin" [syn: diagrammatically, graphically]
  • diametrically
    adv 1: as from opposite ends of a diameter; "when two honest witnesses give accounts of the same event that differ diametrically, how can anyone prove that the evidence you gave was deliberately false?"; "three of these brushes were approximately 120 feet apart and the fourth diametrically opposite to one of the three"
  • didactically
    adv 1: in a didactic manner; "this is a didactically sound method" [syn: didactically, pedagogically]
  • diplomatically
    adv 1: with diplomacy; in a diplomatic manner; "he answered very diplomatically" [ant: undiplomatically]
  • domestically
    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"
  • dramatically
    adv 1: in a very impressive manner; "your performance will improve dramatically" 2: in a dramatic manner; "he confessed dramatically" [ant: undramatically] 3: with respect to dramatic value; "the play was dramatically interesting, but the direction was bad"
  • drastically
    adv 1: in a drastic manner
  • exactly
    adv 1: indicating exactness or preciseness; "he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do"; "it was just as he said--the jewel was gone"; "it has just enough salt" [syn: precisely, exactly, just] 2: just as it should be; "`Precisely, my lord,' he said" [syn: precisely, exactly, on the nose, on the dot, on the button] 3: in a precise manner; "she always expressed herself precisely" [syn: precisely, incisively, exactly] [ant: imprecisely, inexactly]
  • fiercely
    adv 1: in a physically fierce manner; "silence broken by dogs barking ferociously"; "they fought fiercely" [syn: ferociously, fiercely] 2: in an emotionally fierce manner; "she was fiercely proud of her children"
  • meekly
    adv 1: in a submissive or spiritless manner; "meekly bowed to his wishes" 2: in a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head" [syn: humbly, meekly]
  • obliquely
    adv 1: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely] 2: at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face" [syn: obliquely, aslant, athwart]
  • opaquely
    adv 1: in an opaque manner; "he referred opaquely to her recent past"
  • prickly
    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]
  • sickly
    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]
  • sixties
    n 1: the decade from 1960 to 1969 [syn: sixties, 1960s] 2: the time of life between 60 and 70 [syn: sixties, mid- sixties]
  • slackly
    adv 1: in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" [syn: loosely, slackly]
  • sleekly
    adv 1: in a sleek glossy manner; "the wet road was shining sleekly"
  • slickly
    adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]
  • starkly
    adv 1: in a stark manner; "He was starkly unable to achieve coherence" 2: in sharp outline or contrast; "the black walls rose starkly from the snow" 3: in a blunt manner; "in starkly realistic terms"
  • thickly
    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]
  • treacly
    adj 1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly]
  • uniquely
    adv 1: so as to be unique; "he could determine uniquely the properties of the compound" [syn: uniquely, unambiguously]
  • weakly
    adv 1: in a weak or feeble manner or to a minor degree; "weakly agreed to a compromise"; "wheezed weakly"; "he was weakly attracted to her" [ant: strongly] adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly]
  • weekly
    adv 1: without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly" [syn: hebdomadally, weekly, every week, each week] adj 1: of or occurring every seven days; "a weekly visit"; "weekly paper" [syn: weekly, hebdomadal, hebdomadary] n 1: a periodical that is published every week (or 52 issues per year)
  • berkeley
    n 1: Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop who opposed the materialism of Thomas Hobbes (1685-1753) [syn: Berkeley, Bishop Berkeley, George Berkeley] 2: a city in California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; site of the University of California at Berkeley
  • cosmetically
    adv 1: for cosmetic purposes to improve appearance; "it is used cosmetically by many women"
  • sparkly
    adj 1: marked by high spirits or excitement; "his fertile effervescent mind"; "scintillating personality"; "a row of sparkly cheerleaders" [syn: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly] 2: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly]
  • barkley
    n 1: United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956) [syn: Barkley, Alben Barkley, Alben William Barkley]
  • anarchically
    adv 1: in a lawless rebellious manner
  • acrobatically
  • aerobically
  • aerodynamically
  • aeronautically
  • alcoholically
  • antiseptically
  • aphoristically
  • apoplectically
  • archaeologically
  • archaically
  • aromatically
  • aseptically
  • asthmatically
  • astronautically
  • athletically
  • atomically
  • barbarically
  • barometrically
  • bibliographically
  • blackly
  • capitalistically
  • cephalically
  • chauvinistically
  • chicly
  • choreographically
  • cinematically
  • civically
  • clerkly
  • communistically
  • cosmically

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