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abnormally
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adv 1: in an abnormal manner; "they were behaving abnormally";
"his blood pressure was abnormally low"
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abysmally
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adv 1: in a terrible manner; "she sings terribly" [syn:
terribly, atrociously, awfully, abominably,
abysmally, rottenly]
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accidentally
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adv 1: without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [syn:
by chance, accidentally, circumstantially,
unexpectedly] [ant: advisedly, by choice, by
design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally,
on purpose, purposely]
2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent
achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental
models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally]
3: without intention; in an unintentional manner; "she hit him
unintentionally" [syn: unintentionally, accidentally]
[ant: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately,
designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely]
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accordingly
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adv 1: (sentence connectors) because of the reason given;
"consequently, he didn't do it"; "continued to have
severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor"
[syn: consequently, accordingly]
2: in accordance with; "she acted accordingly"
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admiringly
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adv 1: with admiration; "he looked at his wife admiringly"
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alarmingly
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adv 1: in an alarming manner; "It grew alarmingly fast"
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amazingly
0
adv 1: in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly,
he finished medical school in three years" [syn:
amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly]
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amusingly
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adv 1: in an entertaining and amusing manner; "Hollywood has
grown too sophisticated to turn out anything really
amusingly bad these days" [syn: amusingly,
divertingly]
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annoyingly
0
adv 1: in an annoying manner or to an annoying degree
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anomaly
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n 1: deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
[syn: anomaly, anomalousness]
2: a person who is unusual [syn: anomaly, unusual person]
3: (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular
distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
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appallingly
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adv 1: to an appalling extent; "the prisoners were appallingly
thin"
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appealingly
0
adv 1: in an appealing manner; "the table was set appealingly"
[ant: unappealingly]
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approvingly
0
adv 1: in an approving manner; "she nodded approvingly" [ant:
disapprovingly]
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astonishingly
0
adv 1: in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise; "amazingly,
he finished medical school in three years" [syn:
amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly]
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balmily
0
adv 1: in a mildly insane manner; "the old lady is beginning to
behave quite dottily" [syn: daftly, dottily,
balmily, nuttily, wackily]
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banteringly
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adv 1: in a bantering fashion; "he spoke to her banteringly"
[syn: banteringly, tongue-in-cheek]
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bawdily
0
adv 1: in a bawdy manner
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becomingly
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adv 1: in a becoming manner; "she was becomingly dressed"
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beggarly
0
adj 1: marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly
existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" [syn: beggarly,
mean]
2: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve
contempt [syn: beggarly, mean]
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beseechingly
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adv 1: in a beseeching manner; "`You must help me,' she said
imploringly" [syn: beseechingly, importunately,
imploringly, pleadingly, entreatingly]
-
bewilderingly
0
adv 1: in a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was
bewilderingly unclear" [syn: bewilderingly,
confusingly]
-
bitingly
0
adv 1: extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter
cold" [syn: piercingly, bitterly, bitingly,
bitter]
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bloodily
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adv 1: involving a great bloodshed [ant: bloodlessly]
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bodily
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adv 1: in bodily form; "he was translated bodily to heaven"
adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the body; "a bodily
organ"; "bodily functions"
2: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the
mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect";
"corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness"
[syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic]
3: having or relating to a physical material body; "bodily
existence"
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broccoli
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n 1: plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds [syn:
broccoli, Brassica oleracea italica]
2: branched green undeveloped flower heads
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calculatingly
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adv 1: in a calculating manner; "he looked at her calculatingly"
-
caudally
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adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally,
caudal]
-
charmingly
0
adv 1: in a charming manner
-
cheekily
0
adv 1: in a brash cheeky manner; "brashly, she asked for a
rebate" [syn: cheekily, nervily, brashly]
-
clammily
0
adv 1: in a clammy manner
-
classically
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adv 1: in the manner of Greek and Roman culture; "this exercise
develops a classically shaped body"
-
coincidentally
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adv 1: happening at the same time [syn: coincidentally,
coincidently]
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condescendingly
0
adv 1: with condescension; in a patronizing manner; "he treats
his secretary condescendingly" [syn: condescendingly,
patronizingly, patronisingly]
-
confusingly
0
adv 1: in a bewildering and confusing manner; "her situation was
bewilderingly unclear" [syn: bewilderingly,
confusingly]
-
conjugally
0
adv 1: in a conjugal manner [syn: conjugally, connubial]
-
consolingly
0
adv 1: in a comforting or consoling manner; "one part of a
strange world should be given a comfortingly familiar
form" [syn: comfortingly, consolingly]
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contrastingly
0
adv 1: in a contrasting manner; "contrastingly, both the rooms
leading off it gave an immediate impression of being
disgraced"
-
contumely
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n 1: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a
student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse";
"they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse,
insult, revilement, contumely, vilification]
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convincingly
0
adv 1: in a convincing manner; "he argued convincingly" [ant:
unconvincingly]
-
correspondingly
0
adv 1: in a corresponding manner; "the temperature decreases
correspondingly"
-
craftily
0
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]
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creakily
0
adv 1: in a creaky manner; "the old boat was moving along
creakily" [syn: creakily, creakingly, screakily]
-
crinkly
0
adj 1: uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves [syn:
crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavy, wavelike]
-
cunningly
0
adv 1: in an attractive manner; "how cunningly the olive-green
dress with its underskirt of rose-brocade fitted her
perfect figure" [syn: cunningly, cutely]
2: 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]
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daintily
0
adv 1: in a refined manner; "she nibbled daintily at her cake"
2: in a delicate manner; "the invitation cards were written up
daintily in white and gold"
-
daringly
0
adv 1: in an original manner; "daringly he took the first step"
2: in an adventurous manner; "daringly, he set out on a camping
trip in East Africa"
-
dashingly
0
adv 1: in a highly fashionable manner; "he was dashingly
handsome"
-
dazzlingly
0
adv 1: in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder
-
deceivingly
0
adv 1: in a misleading way; "the exam looked deceptively easy"
[syn: deceptively, deceivingly, misleadingly]
-
departmentally
0
adv 1: dependent on a department
-
depressingly
0
adv 1: in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree
-
despairingly
0
adv 1: with desperation; "`Why can't you understand?,' she asked
despairingly" [syn: despairingly, despondently]
-
detrimentally
0
adv 1: in a detrimental manner [syn: detrimentally,
harmfully, noxiously] [ant: harmlessly]
-
developmentally
0
adv 1: with respect to development; "developmentally retarded"
-
diastole
0
n 1: the widening of the chambers of the heart between two
contractions when the chambers fill with blood
-
disappointingly
0
adv 1: in a disappointing manner; "the discoverer of argon, Sir
William Ramsay, looked disappointingly ordinary"
-
disapprovingly
0
adv 1: showing disapproval; "he shook his head disapprovingly"
[ant: approvingly]
-
disconcertingly
0
adv 1: in a disturbing or embarrassing manner; "he drank some
sherry, his eyes disconcertingly keen as he watched her"
-
discouragingly
0
adv 1: in a discouraging manner; "the failure rate on the bar
exam is discouragingly high" [ant: encouragingly]
-
disgustingly
0
adv 1: in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree; "the
beggar was disgustingly filthy" [syn: disgustingly,
distastefully, revoltingly, sickeningly]
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dismally
0
adv 1: in a cheerless manner; "in August 1914 , there was a
dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French,
German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee
drank together to the peace of the future" [syn:
dismally, drearily]
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]
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disorderly
0
adj 1: undisciplined and unruly; "disorderly youths";
"disorderly conduct" [ant: orderly]
2: in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes" [syn:
disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger,
jumbled, topsy-turvy]
3: completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn:
chaotic, disorderly]
-
disparagingly
0
adv 1: in a disparaging manner; "these mythological figures are
described disparagingly as belonging `only to a story'"
[syn: disparagingly, slightingly]
-
disquietingly
0
adv 1: in a disquieting manner; "the disquietingly close sounds
of gunfire"
-
distally
0
adv 1: far from the center; "the bronchus is situated distally"
-
distressingly
0
adv 1: unpleasantly; "his ignorance was painfully obvious" [syn:
painfully, distressingly]
-
disturbingly
0
adv 1: in a disturbing manner; "the details of the kidnaper's
letter had sounded disturbingly convincing"
-
dreamily
0
adv 1: in a dreamy manner; "`She would look beautiful in the new
dress,' Tommy said dreamily" [syn: dreamily, moonily,
dreamfully]
-
eagerly
0
adv 1: with eagerness; in an eager manner; "the news was eagerly
awaited" [syn: eagerly, thirstily]
-
easterly
0
adv 1: from the east; "the winds blew easterly all night" [ant:
westerly]
adj 1: lying in or toward the east; "the east side of New York";
"eastern cities" [syn: easterly, eastern]
2: from the east; used especially of winds; "an eastern wind";
"the winds are easterly" [syn: easterly, eastern]
n 1: a wind from the east [syn: east wind, easter,
easterly]
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elderly
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adj 1: advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two
syllables); "aged members of the society"; "elderly
residents could remember the construction of the first
skyscraper"; "senior citizen" [syn: aged, elderly,
older, senior]
n 1: people who are old collectively; "special arrangements were
available for the aged" [syn: aged, elderly] [ant:
young, youth]
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environmentally
0
adv 1: for the environment; "the new recycling policy is
environmentally safe"
-
experimentally
0
adv 1: in an experimental fashion; "this can be experimentally
determined" [syn: experimentally, by experimentation,
through an experiment]
-
facsimile
0
n 1: an exact copy or reproduction [syn: facsimile,
autotype]
2: duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio [syn:
facsimile, facsimile machine, fax]
v 1: send something via a facsimile machine; "Can you fax me the
report right away?" [syn: fax, telefax, facsimile]
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family
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n 1: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to
Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited
until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how
many people made up his home" [syn: family, household,
house, home, menage]
2: primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to
have a good job before starting a family" [syn: family,
family unit]
3: a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are
two classes of detergents" [syn: class, category,
family]
4: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has
lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family,
family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept,
phratry]
5: a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin";
"he's family" [syn: kin, kinsperson, family]
6: (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera;
"sharks belong to the fish family"
7: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized
criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate,
mob, family]
8: an association of people who share common beliefs or
activities; "the message was addressed not just to employees
but to every member of the company family"; "the church
welcomed new members into its fellowship" [syn: family,
fellowship]
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feudally
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adv 1: in a feudal manner; "a feudally organized society"
-
fiscally
0
adv 1: in financial matters; "fiscally irresponsible" [syn:
fiscally, in fiscal matters]
-
formally
0
adv 1: with official authorization; "the club will be formally
recognized" [syn: formally, officially]
2: in a formal manner; "he was dressed rather formally" [ant:
informally]
-
formerly
0
adv 1: at a previous time; "at one time he loved her"; "her
erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once"; [syn:
once, formerly, at one time, erstwhile, erst]
-
friskily
0
adv 1: in a playfully frisky manner; "he moves about friskily
despite his age"
-
frontally
0
adv 1: in, at, or toward the front
-
frostily
0
adv 1: without warmth or enthusiasm; "`Come in if you have to,'
he said frostily" [syn: frostily, frigidly]
-
frugally
0
adv 1: in a frugal manner; "in villages, the new pipeline marks
the end of water as a precious liquid, to be dispensed
frugally, weighed out drop by drop"
-
fundamentally
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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]
-
gaudily
0
adv 1: in a tastelessly garish manner; "the temple was garishly
decorated with bright plastic flowers" [syn: garishly,
tawdrily, gaudily]
-
giddily
0
adv 1: in a giddy light-headed manner; "he walked around
dizzily" [syn: dizzily, giddily, light-headedly]
-
gloomily
0
adv 1: with gloom; "such a change is gloomily foreseen by many"
-
greedily
0
adv 1: in a greedy manner [syn: avariciously, covetously,
greedily]
-
guiltily
0
adv 1: in the manner of someone who has committed an offense;
"she blushed guiltily as she spoke"
-
handily
0
adv 1: in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently
located" [syn: handily, conveniently] [ant:
inconveniently]
2: with no difficulty; "she beat him handily" [syn: handily,
hands down]
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hastily
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adv 1: in a hurried or hasty manner; "the way they buried him so
hurriedly was disgraceful"; "hastily, he scanned the
headlines"; "sold in haste and at a sacrifice" [syn:
hurriedly, hastily, in haste] [ant: unhurriedly]
-
hebdomadally
0
adv 1: without missing a week; "she visited her aunt weekly"
[syn: hebdomadally, weekly, every week, each
week]
-
homily
0
n 1: a sermon on a moral or religious topic [syn: homily,
preachment]
-
horizontally
0
adv 1: in a horizontal direction; "a gallery quite often is
added to make use of space vertically as well as
horizontally"
-
huskily
0
adv 1: in a hoarse or husky voice; "`Excuse me,' he said
hoarsely" [syn: hoarsely, huskily]
-
illegally
0
adv 1: in an illegal manner; "they dumped the waste illegally"
[syn: illegally, illicitly, lawlessly] [ant:
lawfully, legitimately, licitly]
-
incidentally
0
adv 1: introducing a different topic; in point of fact;
"incidentally, I won't go to the party" [syn: by the
way, by the bye, incidentally, apropos]
2: of a minor or subordinate nature; "these magnificent
achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental
models" [syn: incidentally, accidentally]
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informally
0
adv 1: without formality; "he visited us informally" [ant:
formally]
2: with the use of colloquial expressions; "this building is
colloquially referred to as The Barn" [syn: colloquially,
conversationally, informally]
-
jauntily
0
adv 1: in a jaunty fashionable manner; "his hat sat jauntily on
his full brown hair"
-
jerkily
0
adv 1: with spasms; "the mouth was slightly open, and jerked
violently and spasmodically at one corner" [syn:
spasmodically, jerkily]
2: with jerking motions; "She rose stiffly, jerkily from the
window seat"