Words that rhyme with tenuously

  • ambiguously
    adv 1: in an ambiguous manner; "this letter is worded ambiguously" [syn: ambiguously, equivocally] [ant: unambiguously, unequivocally]
  • arduously
    adv 1: in an arduous manner; "they worked arduously"
  • assiduously
    adv 1: with care and persistence; "she worked assiduously on the senior thesis"
  • contemptuously
    adv 1: without respect; in a disdainful manner; "she spoke of him contemptuously" [syn: contemptuously, disdainfully, scornfully, contumeliously]
  • continuously
    adv 1: at every point; "The function is continuously differentiable" 2: with unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste" [syn: endlessly, ceaselessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly, continuously]
  • disingenuously
    adv 1: in a disingenuous manner; "disingenuously, he asked leading questions abut his opponent's work" [syn: disingenuously, artfully]
  • fatuously
    adv 1: vacuously or complacently and unconsciously foolish [syn: fatuously, inanely]
  • impetuously
    adv 1: in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions; "he often acts impulsively and later regrets it" [syn: impetuously, impulsively]
  • incestuously
    adv 1: by incest; "incestuously conceived"
  • incongruously
    adv 1: in an incongruous manner; "his shirttails stuck out from his tuxedo pants somewhat incongruously"
  • inconspicuously
    adv 1: in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention; "he had entered the room inconspicuously" [ant: conspicuously]
  • ingenuously
    adv 1: in an ingenuous manner; "she answered the judge's questions artlessly" [syn: artlessly, ingenuously]
  • perspicuously
    adv 1: in a clear and lucid manner; "this is a lucidly written book" [syn: lucidly, pellucidly, limpidly, perspicuously]
  • pompously
    adv 1: in a pompous manner; "he pompously described his achievements"
  • presumptuously
    adv 1: in a presumptuous manner; "he presumptuously overstepped the doctor's orders"
  • promiscuously
    adv 1: in an indiscriminate manner; "she reads promiscuously" [syn: promiscuously, indiscriminately] 2: in a licentious and promiscuous manner; "this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously" [syn: licentiously, wantonly, promiscuously]
  • sensuously
    adv 1: with aesthetic gratification or delight; "sensuously delighting in the wine and food"
  • sinuously
    adv 1: in a sinuous manner
  • strenuously
    adv 1: in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously; "he objected strenuously to the stand his party was taking"
  • sumptuously
    adv 1: in a sumptuous and opulent manner; "this government building is sumptuously appointed" [syn: sumptuously, opulently]
  • tortuously
    adv 1: with twists and turns 2: in a tortuous manner; "tortuously haggling over the price"
  • tumultuously
    adv 1: in a tumultuous and riotous manner; "the crowd was demonstrating tumultuously" [syn: tumultuously, riotously]
  • unambiguously
    adv 1: in an unambiguous manner; "she stated her intentions unequivocally" [syn: unambiguously, unequivocally] [ant: ambiguously, equivocally] 2: so as to be unique; "he could determine uniquely the properties of the compound" [syn: uniquely, unambiguously]
  • unctuously
    adv 1: in an unctuous manner [syn: unctuously, smarmily, fulsomely]
  • vacuously
    adv 1: in a vacuous manner
  • virtuously
    adv 1: in a moral manner; "he acted morally under the circumstances" [syn: morally, virtuously] [ant: amorally, immorally] 2: in a chaste and virtuous manner; "she lived chastely" [syn: chastely, virtuously]
  • voluptuously
    adv 1: in a shapely and voluptuous manner; "a voluptuously curved woman" 2: in an indulgently voluptuous manner; "he sniffed the perfume voluptuously"
  • congruously
  • contiguously
  • discontinuously
  • exiguously
  • flexuously
  • innocuously
  • mellifluously
  • tempestuously

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