Words that rhyme with worsley

adv 1: in an adverse manner; "she was adversely affected by the new regulations"

adv 1: in a close relation or position in time or space; "the onsets were closely timed"; "houses set closely together"; "was closely involved in monitoring daily progress" 2: in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard" [syn: close, closely, tight] 3: in a close manner; "the two phenomena are intimately connected"; "the person most nearly concerned" [syn: closely, intimately, nearly]

adv 1: with the terms of the relation reversed; "conversely, not all women are mothers"

adv 1: in a stupid manner; "he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone" [syn: dumbly, densely, obtusely] 2: in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area" [syn: densely, thickly] [ant: thinly]

adv 1: in diverse ways; "the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants"; "the speakers treated the subject most diversely" [syn: variously, diversely, multifariously]

adv 1: in an insincerely false manner; "a seduction on my part would land us with the necessity to rise, bathe and dress, chat falsely about this and that, and emerge into the rest of the evening as though nothing had happened" 2: in an incorrect manner; "to credit Lister with the first formulation of the basic principle of stratigraphy would be to bestow credit falsely" [syn: falsely, incorrectly]

adv 1: in a grandiose manner; "the building was bombastically spacious" [syn: bombastically, grandiosely]

adj 1: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick]

adj 1: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair; "whose beard with age is hoar"-Coleridge; "nodded his hoary head" [syn: grey, gray, grey- haired, gray-haired, grey-headed, gray-headed, grizzly, hoar, hoary, white-haired] n 1: powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America [syn: grizzly, grizzly bear, silvertip, silver-tip, Ursus horribilis, Ursus arctos horribilis]

adv 1: in a gross manner

adv 1: in an inverse or contrary manner; "inversely related"; "wavelength and frequency are, of course, related reciprocally"- F.A.Geldard [syn: inversely, reciprocally]

adv 1: in a permissively lenient manner; "he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime" [syn: laxly, leniently]

adj 1: contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans" [syn: measly, miserable, paltry]

n 1: mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits

adv 1: without need; "it would needlessly bring badness into the world"

adv 1: without a sound; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door" [syn: noiselessly, soundlessly]

adv 1: without pain; "after the surgery, she could move her arms painlessly" [ant: painfully, sorely]

n 1: a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes

n 1: annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves [syn: parsley, Petroselinum crispum] 2: aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food

adv 1: deliberately deviant; "his perversely erotic notions" 2: in a contrary disobedient manner [syn: perversely, contrarily, contrariwise]

adj 1: rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded dining rooms" [syn: deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous] 2: having the rank of or befitting a prince; "a princely bearing"; "princely manner"

adv 1: without a clear purpose; "let's not purposelessly dispense the aid"

adv 1: in an altruistic manner; "he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress" [syn: altruistically, selflessly]

adv 1: in a meaningless and purposeless manner; "these innocent bystanders were senselessly killed" 2: in an unreasonably senseless manner; "these temples were mindlessly destroyed by the Red Guards" [syn: mindlessly, senselessly]

adv 1: without shame; "he unashamedly abandoned the project when he realized he would not gain from it" [syn: unashamedly, shamelessly, barefacedly] [ant: ashamedly]

adv 1: in a shapeless manner; "the dress hung shapelessly on her thin body"

adv 1: without sleep; in a sleepless manner; "he was lying in bed sleeplessly"

adv 1: in a soulless manner; "they were soullessly grubbing for profit"

adv 1: without a sound; "he stood up soundlessly and speechlessly and glided across the hallway and through a door" [syn: noiselessly, soundlessly]

adv 1: in a tense manner; "he sat down tensely"

adv 1: in a short and concise manner; "a particular bird, exactly and tersely described in the book of birds" [syn: telegraphically, tersely]

adv 1: without good sense or judgment; "He acted foolishly when he agreed to come" [syn: foolishly, unwisely] [ant: sagely, wisely]

adv 1: in a wise manner; "she acted wisely when she invited her parents" [syn: wisely, sagely] [ant: foolishly, unwisely]

adj 1: (of hair) in small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy]

n 1: United States rock singer whose many hit records and flamboyant style greatly influenced American popular music (1935-1977) [syn: Presley, Elvis Presley, Elvis Aron Presley]

n 1: English clergyman and brother of John Wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788) [syn: Wesley, Charles Wesley] 2: English clergyman and founder of Methodism (1703-1791) [syn: Wesley, John Wesley]