Words that rhyme with stressfully

adv 1: 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] 2: used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly; "you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out"; "she actually spoke Latin"; "they thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets"; "people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous" [syn: actually, in reality] 3: at the present moment; "the transmission screen shows the picture that is actually on the air" 4: as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; "actually, we all help clear up after a meal"; "actually, I haven't seen the film"; "I'm not all that surprised actually"; "she hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually"

adv 1: as an adjective; in an adjectival manner

adv 1: in an artful manner; "her foot pointed artfully toward tapering toes" 2: in a disingenuous manner; "disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent's work" [syn: disingenuously, artfully] 3: in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully]

adv 1: not according to nature; not by natural means; "artificially induced conditions" [syn: artificially, unnaturally, by artificial means] [ant: naturally]

adv 1: in an asexual manner; "plants that reproduce asexually"

adv 1: in a baleful manner; "she looked at him balefully"

adv 1: in a shy or timid or bashful manner; "he smiled shyly" [syn: shyly, timidly, bashfully]

adv 1: in a beneficial manner; "this medicine will act beneficially on you"

adv 1: in a blissful manner; "he was blissfully unaware of the danger"

adv 1: in a boastful manner; "he talked big all evening" [syn: boastfully, vauntingly, big, large]

adv 1: in a breezy manner; "he swings breezily into the title song"

adv 1: (archaic as adverb) in a brotherly manner adj 1: like or characteristic of or befitting a brother; "brotherly feelings"; "close fraternal ties" [syn: brotherly, brotherlike, fraternal] [ant: sisterlike, sisterly, sororal]

adv 1: in a busy manner; "they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs"

adv 1: in a cagey manner; "`I don't know yet,' he answered cagily" [syn: cagily, circumspectly]

adv 1: not methodically or according to plan; "he dealt with his course work casually" 2: in an unconcerned manner; "glanced casually at the headlines" [syn: casually, nonchalantly]

adv 1: in a causal fashion; "causally efficacious powers"

adv 1: according to circumstances; "he was convicted circumstantially" 2: insofar as the circumstances are concerned; "the account was circumstantially accurate" 3: in minute detail; "our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses" [syn: minutely, circumstantially] 4: without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [syn: by chance, accidentally, circumstantially, unexpectedly] [ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely]

adv 1: in a civil manner; "he treats his former wife civilly" [ant: uncivilly]

adv 1: in a clever manner; "they were cleverly arranged"; "a smartly managed business" [syn: cleverly, smartly]

adv 1: in a clumsy manner; "he snatched the bills clumsily"

adv 1: in a commensal manner

adv 1: in a commercial manner; "the product is commercially available"

adv 1: in a conceptual manner; "he can no longer think conceptually"; "conceptually, the idea is quite simple"

adv 1: in a confidential manner; "spoke to him intimately and confidentially"

adv 1: having consequence [ant: inconsequentially, inconsequently]

adv 1: in a manner dependent on context

adv 1: by virtue of a contract; "they were contractually responsible"

adv 1: involving controversy; "criticism too polemically stated" [syn: controversially, polemically] [ant: uncontroversially]

adv 1: in a cozy manner; "nestled cozily by the fire" [syn: cozily, cosily]

adv 1: in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" [syn: insanely, crazily, dementedly, madly] [ant: sanely]

adv 1: to a crucial degree; "crucially important"; "crucially, he must meet us at the airport"

adv 1: in a corrupt and deceitful manner; "he acted dishonestly when he gave the contract to his best friend" [syn: dishonestly, venally, deceitfully] [ant: aboveboard, honestly]

adv 1: in a servile manner; "he always acts so deferentially around his supervisor" [syn: deferentially, submissively] 2: in a respectfully deferential manner; "he listened deferentially"

adv 1: in a delightful manner; "the farm house, though in itself a small one, is delightfully situated"

adv 1: in a maliciously spiteful manner; "pray for them that despitefully use us" [syn: despitefully, spitefully]

adv 1: in a differential manner; "Hubel and Wiesel have found cells that respond differentially according to the direction in which a stimulus is moved across the retina"

adv 1: in a dingy manner [syn: dingily, grubbily, grungily]

adv 1: in a proud and domineering manner; "he treated his staff cavalierly" [syn: disdainfully, cavalierly] 2: without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously]

adv 1: in a dishonorable manner or to a dishonorable degree; "his grades were disgracefully low" [syn: disgracefully, ingloriously, ignominiously, discreditably, shamefully, dishonorably, dishonourably]

adv 1: in a disrespectful manner; "he treats his parents rather disrespectfully" [ant: respectfully]

adv 1: in an offensively distasteful manner; "a distastefully explicit report on the Royal couple's marital life" 2: in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree; "the beggar was disgustingly filthy" [syn: disgustingly, distastefully, revoltingly, sickeningly]

adv 1: with distress; "`Doctor Rother says it's his only chance,' she added distressfully"

adv 1: with distrust; "she looked at him distrustfully" [syn: distrustfully, mistrustfully] [ant: confidingly, trustfully, trustingly]

adv 1: in a giddy light-headed manner; "he walked around dizzily" [syn: dizzily, giddily, light-headedly]

adv 1: with sadness; in a sorrowful manner; "his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army" [syn: dolefully, sorrowfully]

adv 1: in a dorsal location or direction

adv 1: in a doubtful manner; "Gerald shook his head doubtfully" [syn: doubtfully, dubiously]

adv 1: of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning" [syn: dreadfully, awfully, horribly] 2: in a dreadful manner; "as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed" [syn: dismally, dreadfully]

adv 1: in a drowsy manner; "`Time to get up,' she said drowsily" [syn: drowsily, somnolently]

adv 1: with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily'); "she was easily excited"; "was easily confused"; "he won easily"; "this china breaks very easily"; "success came too easy" [syn: easily, easy] 2: without question; "easily the best book she's written" 3: indicating high probability; in all likelihood; "I might well do it"; "a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster"; "you may well need your umbrella"; "he could equally well be trying to deceive us" [syn: well, easily]

adv 1: in an effectual manner; "Bismarck was constantly criticised by the more liberal newspapers, and he retaliated by passing an emergency decree that effectually muzzled the press" [ant: ineffectually]

adv 1: to the same degree (often followed by `as'); "they were equally beautiful"; "birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly"; "sang as sweetly as a nightingale"; "he is every bit as mean as she is" [syn: equally, as, every bit] 2: in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way; "a class evenly divided between girls and boys"; "they split their winnings equally"; "deal equally with rich and poor" [syn: evenly, equally] [ant: unequally, unevenly]

adv 1: to a distinctly greater extent or degree than is common; "he was particularly fussy about spelling"; "a particularly gruesome attack"; "under peculiarly tragic circumstances"; "an especially (or specially) cautious approach to the danger" [syn: particularly, peculiarly, especially, specially] 2: in a special manner; "a specially arranged dinner" [syn: specially, especially]

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]

adv 1: after an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay [syn: finally, eventually]

adv 1: in a wicked evil manner; "act wickedly"; "grin evilly" [syn: wickedly, evilly]

adv 1: in an exponential manner; "inflation is growing exponentially"

adv 1: with respect to the face

adv 1: as a fact or based on fact; "they learn much, factually, about the problems of retirement and provision for old age, and, psychologically, in the sharing of their thoughts on retirement"

adv 1: in a faithful manner; "it always came on, faithfully, like the radio" [syn: faithfully, dependably, reliably] [ant: undependably, unfaithfully, unreliably]

adv 1: in a prophetically fateful manner; "the nurse whispered fatefully to call the priest"

adj 1: like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective [syn: fatherly, fatherlike]

adv 1: in a filthy unclean manner; "a dirtily dressed camel driver" [syn: dirtily, filthily]

adv 1: from a financial point of view; "this was financially unattractive"

adv 1: in a fitful manner; "he slept fitfully"

adv 1: in a meretricious manner; "the boat is meretriciously decorated" [syn: meretriciously, flashily] 2: in a fancy colorful manner; "he dresses rather flamboyantly" [syn: flamboyantly, showily, flashily]

adv 1: in a weak and flimsy manner; "this car is so flimsily constructed!"

adv 1: with full force; "we are seeing this film too late to feel its original impact forcefully"

adv 1: in a forgetful manner; "she is getting old and acts forgetfully"

adv 1: in an artful manner; "he craftily arranged to be there when the decision was announced"; "had ever circumstances conspired so cunningly?" [syn: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily, artfully]

adv 1: in a fretful manner; "fretfully, the baby tossed in his crib"

adv 1: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry" [syn: terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully]

adv 1: in a frothy manner; "the champagne poured frothily into the glasses"

adv 1: in a productive way; "they worked together productively for two years" [syn: productively, fruitfully, profitably] [ant: fruitlessly, unproductively, unprofitably]

adv 1: in a fussy manner; "he spoke to her fussily"

adv 1: in a gainful way; "are you gainfully employed now?"

adv 1: in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket" adj 1: with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White

adv 1: by a glacier; "glacially deposited material"

adv 1: in a glossy manner; "the magazine was glossily printed"

adv 1: in a graceful manner; "she swooped gracefully" [ant: gracelessly] 2: in a gracious or graceful manner; "he did not have a chance to grow up graciously" [syn: graciously, gracefully] [ant: gracelessly, ungracefully, ungraciously, woodenly]

adv 1: with appreciation; in a grateful manner; "he accepted my offer appreciatively" [syn: appreciatively, gratefully] [ant: unappreciatively, ungratefully] 2: in a thankful manner; with thanks; "he accepted thankfully my apologies" [syn: thankfully, gratefully]

adv 1: in a greasy manner; "the food was greasily unappetizing"

adj 1: difficult to chew [syn: cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery]

adv 1: in an ill-natured manner; "she looked at her husband crossly" [syn: crossly, grouchily, grumpily]

adv 1: in a detrimental manner [syn: detrimentally, harmfully, noxiously] [ant: harmlessly]

adv 1: in a hateful manner

adv 1: through a haze; "we saw the distant hills hazily" 2: in an indistinct way; "he remembered her only hazily"

adv 1: in a levelheaded manner; "the answers were healthily individual"

adv 1: to a considerable degree; "he relied heavily on others' data" [syn: heavily, to a great extent] 2: in a heavy-footed manner; "he walked heavily up the three flights to his room" 3: with great force; "she hit her arm heavily against the wall" 4: in a manner designed for heavy duty; "a heavily constructed car"; "heavily armed" 5: slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" [syn: heavy, heavily] 6: in a labored manner; "he breathed heavily" 7: indulging excessively; "he drank heavily" [syn: heavily, intemperately, hard] [ant: lightly]

adv 1: in a cold and icy manner; "`Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily"

adv 1: in an impartial manner; "he smiled at them both impartially"

adv 1: lacking consequence; "`You're so beautifully dressed,' she said and added quite inconsequentially, `Can you stay the night?'" [syn: inconsequentially, inconsequently] [ant: consequentially]

adv 1: 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]

adv 1: in an ineffectual manner; "she tried ineffectually to light the primus, and Thomas came to help her" [ant: effectually]

adv 1: exerting influence

adv 1: at the beginning; "at first he didn't notice anything strange" [syn: initially, ab initio]

adv 1: in an intellectual manner; "intellectually gifted children"; "intellectually influenced"

adv 1: as ordered by a court 2: in a judicial manner; "judicially controlled process"

adv 1: in a slow and lazy manner; "I watched the blue smoke drift lazily away on the still air" 2: in an idle manner; "this is what I always imagined myself doing in the south of France, sitting idly, drinking coffee, watching the people" [syn: idly, lazily]

adv 1: in an unhurried way or at one's convenience; "read the manual at your leisure"; "he traveled leisurely" [syn: at leisure, leisurely] adj 1: not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "at a leisurely (or easygoing) pace" [syn: easy, easygoing, leisurely]