Words that rhyme with ritualistically

adj 1: of or pertaining to animalism

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

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)

adv 1: without hope; "he wondered bleakly"

adj 1: characteristic of cannibals or exhibiting cannibalism; "cannibalistic behavior"

adj 1: favoring or practicing capitalism [syn: capitalistic, capitalist] [ant: socialist, socialistic] 2: of or relating to capitalism or capitalists; "a capitalist nation"; "capitalistic methods and incentives" [syn: capitalist, capitalistic]

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

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"

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

adj 1: relating to or promoting the preaching and dissemination of the Christian gospel; "evangelistic fervor"; "the evangelistic concerns of the early church" 2: marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause [syn: evangelical, evangelistic]

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]

adj 1: of or relating to fatalism; "a fatalist person" [syn: fatalist, fatalistic]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism [syn: feudal, feudalistic]

adj 1: concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art); "highly formalized plays like `Waiting for Godot'" [syn: formalistic, formalized, formalised]

adj 1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas [syn: ideal, idealistic] 2: of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose" [syn: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, rarified, idealistic, noble-minded]

adj 1: of or relating to imperialism; "imperialistic wars" [syn: imperialistic, imperialist]

adj 1: marked by or expressing individuality; "an individualistic way of dressing" [syn: individualist, individualistic] 2: with minimally restricted freedom in commerce [syn: individualistic, laissez-faire(a)]

adj 1: of or relating to or having the characteristics of journalism; "journalistic writing"

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

adj 1: having or demonstrating belief in the essential goodness of man and the autonomy of the individual; favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority

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]

adj 1: marked by materialism [syn: materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded] 2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic]

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: in a submissive or spiritless manner; "meekly bowed to his wishes" 2: in a humble manner; "he humbly lowered his head" [syn: humbly, meekly]

adj 1: having exclusive control over a commercial activity by possession or legal grant

adj 1: narrowly and conventionally moral

adj 1: fanatically patriotic [syn: chauvinistic, flag- waving(a), jingoistic, nationalistic, ultranationalistic, superpatriotic] 2: devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others; "nationalist aspirations"; "minor nationalistic differences" [syn: nationalist, nationalistic]

adj 1: representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" [syn: naturalistic, realistic]

adj 1: of or relating to nihilism

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]

adv 1: in an opaque manner; "he referred opaquely to her recent past"

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

adj 1: benevolent but sometimes intrusive

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

adj 1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of pluralism; "a pluralistic culture"

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]

adj 1: of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism 2: of or relating to or based on probability; "probabilistic quantum theory"

adj 1: of or relating to pugilism or pugilists; "a pugilistic career"

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]

adj 1: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of rationalism

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"

adj 1: of or characterized by or adhering to ritualism; "a feudal or ritualistic society"; "the ritualistic killing of a sheep"

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]

adv 1: in a relaxed manner; not rigid; "his hands lay loosely" [syn: loosely, slackly]

adv 1: in a sleek glossy manner; "the wet road was shining sleekly"

adv 1: with superficial plausibility; "he talked glibly" [syn: glibly, slickly]

adj 1: advocating or following the socialist principles; "socialistic government" [syn: socialistic, socialist] [ant: capitalist, capitalistic]

adj 1: of or relating to or connected with spiritualism [syn: spiritualistic, spiritualist]

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"

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

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]

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

adj 1: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" [syn: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic]

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

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]

adj 1: adhering to tradition especially in cultural or religious practices

adj 1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly]

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: so as to be unique; "he could determine uniquely the properties of the compound" [syn: uniquely, unambiguously]

adj 1: not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels" [ant: realistic]

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

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]

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)

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

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]

adj 1: of or related to or characteristic of specialists 2: showing focused training; "specialist training"

n 1: United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956) [syn: Barkley, Alben Barkley, Alben William Barkley]