Words that rhyme with shrilly

  • agilely
    adv 1: in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease; "nimbly scaling an iron gate"- Charles Dickens; "leaped agilely from roof to roof" [syn: agilely, nimbly]
  • chilli
    n 1: very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [syn: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile]
  • chilly
    adj 1: not characterized by emotion; "a female form in marble--a chilly but ideal medium for depicting abstract virtues"-C.W.Cunningham 2: appreciably or disagreeably cold [syn: chilly, parky] 3: lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting" n 1: very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [syn: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile]
  • coolly
    adv 1: in a composed and unconcerned manner; "without more ado Barker borrowed a knife from his brigade Major and honed it on a carborundum stone as coolly as a butcher" [syn: coolly, nervelessly, nonchalantly]
  • dully
    adv 1: without liveliness; "she nodded her head dully" 2: without luster or shine; "the light shone dully through the haze"; "unpolished buttons glinted dully"
  • evilly
    adv 1: in a wicked evil manner; "act wickedly"; "grin evilly" [syn: wickedly, evilly]
  • filly
    n 1: a young female horse under the age of four
  • foully
    adv 1: in an unfair and insulting manner; "this internationally known writer was foully condemned by the Muslim fundamentalists" [syn: foully, insultingly] 2: in a wicked and shameful manner; "two policemen were foully murdered"
  • frilly
    adj 1: having decorative ruffles or frills [syn: frilled, frilly, ruffled]
  • futilely
    adv 1: in a futile and unproductive manner
  • genteelly
    adv 1: in a genteel manner; "the English lived genteelly in India"
  • hillbilly
    n 1: a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person [syn: hillbilly, bushwhacker]
  • hilly
    adj 1: having hills and crags; "hilly terrain" [syn: cragged, craggy, hilly, mountainous]
  • hostilely
    adv 1: with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner; "he pushed her against the wall belligerently" [syn: belligerently, hostilely]
  • ideally
    adv 1: in an ideal manner; "ideally, this will remove all problems"
  • lily
    n 1: any liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
  • palely
    adv 1: in a manner lacking interest or vitality; "a palely entertaining show" [syn: pallidly, palely, dimly] 2: in a pale manner; without physical or emotional color; "his wife, always palely appealing"
  • really
    adv 1: in accordance with truth or fact or reality; "she was now truly American"; "a genuinely open society"; "they don't really listen to us" [syn: truly, genuinely, really] 2: in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn: actually, really] 3: in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers); "in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"; "really, you shouldn't have done it"; "a truly awful book" [syn: in truth, really, truly] 4: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling]
  • silly
    adj 1: ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany] 2: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light- headed, lightheaded, silly] 3: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic, ridiculous, silly] 4: dazed from or as if from repeated blows; "knocked silly by the impact"; "slaphappy with exhaustion" [syn: punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy] n 1: a word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly"
  • solely
    adv 1: without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him" [syn: entirely, exclusively, solely, alone, only]
  • stilly
    adj 1: (poetic) still or calm; "in the stilly night"
  • vilely
    adv 1: in a vile manner; "his vilely spelt and illiterate letters"
  • wholly
    adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially, partly]
  • billy
    n 1: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club] 2: male goat [syn: billy, billy goat, he-goat]
  • chile
    n 1: a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast [syn: Chile, Republic of Chile] 2: very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [syn: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile]
  • chili
    n 1: ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans [syn: chili, chili con carne] 2: very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency [syn: chili, chili pepper, chilli, chilly, chile]
  • gillie
    n 1: a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief 2: a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep [syn: ghillie, gillie]
  • lillie
    n 1: British actress (born in Canada) (1898-1989) [syn: Lillie, Beatrice Lillie, Lady Peel]
  • skilly
    n 1: a thin porridge or soup (usually oatmeal and water flavored with meat)
  • banally
  • dilly
  • docilely
  • drolly
  • dually
  • fragilely
  • frailly
  • imbecilely
  • milli
  • supplely
  • wholely
  • crilley
  • crilly
  • grilli
  • camilli
  • chantilly
  • fusilli
  • briley
  • cilley
  • dilley
  • dillie
  • filley
  • gilley
  • gilly
  • hiley
  • hilley
  • killey
  • liley
  • lili
  • lilley
  • lilli
  • lilly
  • milley
  • millie
  • milly
  • nilly
  • philley
  • phillie
  • philly
  • pilley
  • rylee
  • shiley
  • tilley
  • tilly
  • willey
  • willie
  • willy
  • dili

See also shrilly definition and shrilly synonyms