Words that rhyme with temple

  • ample
    adj 1: more than enough in size or scope or capacity; "had ample food for the party"; "an ample supply" [ant: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy] 2: affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" [syn: ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich] 3: fairly large; "a sizable fortune"; "an ample waistline"; "of ample proportions" [syn: ample, sizable, sizeable]
  • candidly
    adv 1: (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly, candidly, frankly]
  • confoundedly
    adv 1: in a perplexed manner; "he looked at his professor perplexedly" [syn: perplexedly, confoundedly]
  • crumple
    v 1: fall apart; "the building crumbled after the explosion"; "Negotiations broke down" [syn: crumble, crumple, tumble, break down, collapse] 2: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: buckle, crumple] 3: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit] 4: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle]
  • decidedly
    adv 1: without question and beyond doubt; "it was decidedly too expensive"; "she told him off in spades"; "by all odds they should win" [syn: decidedly, unquestionably, emphatically, definitely, in spades, by all odds]
  • dimple
    n 1: a chad that has been punched or dimpled but all four corners are still attached [syn: dimpled chad, pregnant chad, dimple] 2: any slight depression in a surface; "there are approximately 336 dimples on a golf ball" 3: a small natural hollow in the cheek or chin; "His dimple appeared whenever he smiled" v 1: mark with, or as if with, dimples; "drops dimpled the smooth stream" 2: produce dimples while smiling; "The child dimpled up to the adults"
  • example
    n 1: an item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" [syn: example, illustration, instance, representative] 2: a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example" [syn: model, example] 3: something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general" [syn: exemplar, example, model, good example] 4: punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to make an example of him" [syn: example, deterrent example, lesson, object lesson] 5: an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" [syn: case, instance, example] 6: a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding; "you must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook" [syn: exercise, example]
  • high
    adv 1: at a great altitude; "he climbed high on the ladder" [syn: high, high up] 2: in or to a high position, amount, or degree; "prices have gone up far too high" 3: in a rich manner; "he lives high" [syn: high, richly, luxuriously] 4: far up toward the source; "he lives high up the river" adj 1: greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has high hopes"; "the river is high"; "he has a high opinion of himself" [ant: low] 2: (literal meaning) being at or having a relatively great or specific elevation or upward extension (sometimes used in combinations like `knee-high'); "a high mountain"; "high ceilings"; "high buildings"; "a high forehead"; "a high incline"; "a foot high" [ant: low] 3: standing above others in quality or position; "people in high places"; "the high priest"; "eminent members of the community" [syn: eminent, high] 4: used of sounds and voices; high in pitch or frequency [syn: high, high-pitched] [ant: low, low-pitched] 5: happy and excited and energetic [syn: high, in high spirits] 6: (used of the smell of meat) smelling spoiled or tainted [syn: gamey, gamy, high] 7: slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana) [syn: high, mellow] n 1: a lofty level or position or degree; "summer temperatures reached an all-time high" [ant: low] 2: an air mass of higher than normal pressure; "the east coast benefits from a Bermuda high" 3: a state of sustained elation; "I'm on a permanent high these days" [ant: low spirits] 4: a state of altered consciousness induced by alcohol or narcotics; "they took drugs to get a high on" 5: a high place; "they stood on high and observed the countryside"; "he doesn't like heights" [syn: high, heights] 6: a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool" [syn: senior high school, senior high, high, highschool, high school] 7: a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed [syn: high gear, high]
  • lopsidedly
    adv 1: in a crooked lopsided manner; "he smiled lopsidedly" [syn: lopsidedly, crookedly]
  • nipple
    n 1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit] 2: a flexible cap on a baby's feeding bottle or pacifier
  • offhandedly
    adv 1: without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly" [syn: offhand, offhanded, offhandedly] 2: in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter" [syn: offhand, offhanded, offhandedly]
  • people
    n 1: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" 2: the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people" [syn: citizenry, people] 3: members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" 4: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed] v 1: fill with people; "Stalin wanted to people the empty steppes" 2: furnish with people; "The plains are sparsely populated"
  • pimple
    n 1: a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne [syn: pimple, hickey, zit]
  • rumple
    v 1: disturb the smoothness of; "ruffle the surface of the water" [syn: ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up] 2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit] 3: become wrinkled or crumpled or creased; "This fabric won't wrinkle" [syn: rumple, crumple, wrinkle, crease, crinkle]
  • sample
    n 1: a small part of something intended as representative of the whole 2: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution, sample, sampling] 3: all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class v 1: take a sample of; "Try these new crackers"; "Sample the regional dishes" [syn: sample, try, try out, taste]
  • simple
    adj 1: having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance" [ant: complex] 2: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn: elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic] 3: apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn: bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)] 4: exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "listened in round-eyed wonder" [syn: childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy- eyed, simple] 5: lacking mental capacity and subtlety [syn: dim-witted, simple, simple-minded] 6: (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions [syn: simple, unsubdivided] [ant: compound] 7: unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity" n 1: any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties 2: a person lacking intelligence or common sense [syn: simpleton, simple]
  • sordidly
    adv 1: in a sordid or squalid way [syn: sordidly, squalidly]
  • trample
    n 1: the sound of heavy treading or stomping; "he heard the trample of many feet" [syn: trample, trampling] v 1: tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields" [syn: tread, trample] 2: injure by trampling or as if by trampling; "The passerby was trampled by an elephant" 3: walk on and flatten; "tramp down the grass"; "trample the flowers" [syn: tramp down, trample, tread down]
  • underhandedly
    adv 1: slyly and secretly; "Mean revenge, committed underhand"- John Donne; "oldline aristocratic diplomats underhandedly undermined the attempt...to align Germany with the Western democracies"- C.G.Bowers [syn: underhandedly, underhand]
  • wimple
    n 1: headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
  • backhandedly
  • misguidedly
  • unguardedly
  • intendedly
  • handedly
  • hotheadedly
  • scrumple
  • semple
  • stemple
  • dalrymple

See also temple definition