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348 Adjectives That Contain LY

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Word Definitions Synonyms
aldermanly (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman Synonyms: aldermanic
allylic (adjective) of or pertaining to the allyl radical
amblyopic (adjective) pertaining to a kind of visual impairment without apparent organic pathology
amylolytic (adjective) of or related to the process of amylolysis
anaglyphic (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy Synonyms: anaglyphical, anaglyptic, anaglyptical
anaglyphical (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anaglyptical
anaglyptic (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptical
anaglyptical (adjective) related to anaglyphs or anaglyphy Synonyms: anaglyphic, anaglyphical, anaglyptic
analytic (adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience Synonyms: analytical
(adjective) expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection Synonyms: uninflected
(adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) Synonyms: analytical
(adjective) using or subjected to a methodology using algebra and calculus
analytical (adjective) using or skilled in using analysis (i.e., separating a whole--intellectual or substantial--into its elemental parts or basic principles) Synonyms: analytic
(adjective) of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience Synonyms: analytic
analyzable (adjective) capable of being partitioned Synonyms: decomposable
analyzed (adjective) examined carefully and methodically; broken down for consideration of constituent parts
antimonopoly (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices Synonyms: antitrust
anxiolytic (adjective) anxiety relieving
apocalyptic (adjective) of or relating to an apocalypse
(adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom Synonyms: apocalyptical, revelatory
apocalyptical (adjective) prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom Synonyms: apocalyptic, revelatory
autocatalytic (adjective) relating to or proceeding by autocatalysis
autolytic (adjective) of or relating to self-digestion
bacteriolytic (adjective) of or relating to or causing bacteriolysis
bally (adjective) informal intensifiers Synonyms: blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking
bastardly (adjective) of no value or worth Synonyms: mean
(adjective) born out of wedlock Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious
beastly (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish
(adjective) (informal) very unpleasant Synonyms: god-awful, hellish
beggarly (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar Synonyms: mean
(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt Synonyms: mean
bellying (adjective) curving outward Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant
bellyless (adjective) lacking a prominent belly Synonyms: flat-bellied
bimonthly (adjective) occurring every two months Synonyms: bimestrial
(adjective) occurring twice a month Synonyms: semimonthly
biocatalytic (adjective) of or relating to biocatalysts
biweekly (adjective) occurring every two weeks Synonyms: fortnightly
(adjective) occurring twice a week Synonyms: semiweekly
biyearly (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual
(adjective) occurring every second year Synonyms: biennial
blackguardly (adjective) lacking principles or scruples Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly
bodily (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body
(adjective) having or relating to a physical material body
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit Synonyms: corporal, corporeal, somatic
brambly (adjective) covered with brambles and ferns and other undergrowth Synonyms: braky
brickly (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped Synonyms: brickle, brittle
bristly (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny
(adjective) very irritable Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish
brotherly (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal
bubbly (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation Synonyms: bubbling, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy
(adjective) full of or showing high spirits
buirdly (adjective) muscular and heavily built Synonyms: beefy, burly, husky, strapping
bully (adjective) excellent Synonyms: bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell
bullying (adjective) noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others Synonyms: blustery
bumpkinly (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated
burbly (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm Synonyms: burbling, effusive, gushing
burly (adjective) muscular and heavily built Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping
butcherly (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous
(adjective) poorly done Synonyms: botchy, unskillful
cackly (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg Synonyms: squawky
calyceal (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx Synonyms: calycinal, calycine
calycinal (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx Synonyms: calyceal, calycine
calycine (adjective) of or relating to or resembling a calyx Synonyms: calyceal, calycinal
calycled (adjective) having a calyculus Synonyms: calyculate
calycular (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus Synonyms: calicular
calyculate (adjective) having a calyculus Synonyms: calycled
calyptrate (adjective) having a calyptra
(adjective) having calypters
cataclysmal (adjective) severely destructive Synonyms: cataclysmic
cataclysmic (adjective) severely destructive Synonyms: cataclysmal
catalytic (adjective) relating to or causing or involving catalysis
chalybeate (adjective) containing or impregnated with or tasting of iron
childly (adjective) befitting a young child Synonyms: childlike
chilly (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold Synonyms: parky
(adjective) not characterized by emotion
(adjective) lacking warmth of feeling
christianly (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian
christly (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ Synonyms: christlike
churchly (adjective) resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church
cleanly (adjective) habitually clean
comely (adjective) very pleasing to the eye Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, fair, sightly
(adjective) according with custom or propriety Synonyms: becoming, comme il faut, decorous, seemly
comradely (adjective) heartily friendly and congenial Synonyms: hail-fellow-well-met, hail-fellow
costly (adjective) having a high price Synonyms: dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy
(adjective) entailing great loss or sacrifice Synonyms: dearly-won
courtly (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court Synonyms: formal, stately
cousinly (adjective) like or befitting a cousin
cowardly (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted Synonyms: fearful
crinkly (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy
crumbly (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder Synonyms: friable
cryptanalytic (adjective) of or relating to cryptanalysis Synonyms: cryptographic, cryptographical, cryptologic, cryptological
cuddly (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging Synonyms: cuddlesome
curly (adjective) (of hair) having curls or waves
curmudgeonly (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured
cytolytic (adjective) of or relating to cytolysis, the dissolution or destruction of a cell
daily (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions Synonyms: casual, everyday
(adjective) of or belonging to or occurring every day Synonyms: day-after-day, day-by-day, day-to-day
dastardly (adjective) despicably cowardly Synonyms: dastard
daughterly (adjective) befitting a daughter
deadly (adjective) exceedingly harmful Synonyms: baneful, pernicious, pestilent
(adjective) extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom Synonyms: venomous, virulent
(adjective) involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death Synonyms: mortal
(adjective) (of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect
(adjective) causing or capable of causing death Synonyms: deathly, mortal
(adjective) of an instrument of certain death Synonyms: lethal
deathly (adjective) having the physical appearance of death Synonyms: deathlike
(adjective) causing or capable of causing death Synonyms: deadly, mortal
disorderly (adjective) undisciplined and unruly
(adjective) in utter disorder Synonyms: higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy
(adjective) completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing Synonyms: chaotic
drizzly (adjective) wet with light rain Synonyms: drippy
early (adjective) at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
(adjective) of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
(adjective) being or occurring at an early stage of development
(adjective) belonging to the distant past Synonyms: former, other
(adjective) very young
(adjective) expected in the near future
earlyish (adjective) being somewhat early
earthly (adjective) of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven
easterly (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds Synonyms: eastern
(adjective) lying in or toward the east Synonyms: eastern
ecofriendly (adjective) Good for the environment
elderly (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) Synonyms: aged, older, senior
electrolytic (adjective) of or relating to or containing an electrolyte
(adjective) of or concerned with or produced by electrolysis
elysian (adjective) relating to the Elysian Fields
(adjective) being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods Synonyms: divine, inspired
fatherly (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective Synonyms: fatherlike
fleshly (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body Synonyms: animal, carnal, sensual
fly (adjective) (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked
flyaway (adjective) guided by whim and fancy Synonyms: flighty, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained
(adjective) (of hair or clothing) worn loose
flyblown (adjective) blemished, especially of reputation
(adjective) foul and run-down and repulsive Synonyms: sordid, squalid
(adjective) spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies Synonyms: maggoty
flying (adjective) hurried and brief Synonyms: fast, quick
(adjective) moving swiftly Synonyms: fast-flying
flyspeck (adjective) very small Synonyms: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny
fortnightly (adjective) occurring every two weeks Synonyms: biweekly
friendly (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a friend
(adjective) of or belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
(adjective) easy to understand or use
(adjective) inclined to help or support; not antagonistic or hostile Synonyms: well-disposed, well disposed
frilly (adjective) having decorative ruffles or frills Synonyms: frilled, ruffled
frizzly (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls Synonyms: crisp, frizzy, kinky, nappy

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