| aldermanly | (adjective) of or relating to or like an alderman | Synonyms: aldermanic |
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| antimonopoly | (adjective) of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | Synonyms: antitrust |
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| bally | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
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| bastardly | (adjective) of no value or worth | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious |
| beastly | (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility | Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish |
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| (adjective) (informal) very unpleasant | Synonyms: god-awful, hellish |
| beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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| (adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
| bimonthly | (adjective) occurring every two months | Synonyms: bimestrial |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: semimonthly |
| biweekly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: fortnightly |
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| (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: semiweekly |
| biyearly | (adjective) occurring or payable twice each year | Synonyms: biannual, half-yearly, semiannual |
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| (adjective) occurring every second year | Synonyms: biennial |
| blackguardly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: rascally, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| bodily | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the body | - |
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| (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 |
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| brickly | (adjective) having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped | Synonyms: brickle, brittle |
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| 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 |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: prickly, splenetic, waspish |
| brotherly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a brother | Synonyms: brotherlike, fraternal |
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| bubbly | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) full of or showing high spirits | - |
| buirdly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, burly, husky, strapping |
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| bully | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| bumpkinly | (adjective) awkwardly simple and provincial | Synonyms: hick, rustic, unsophisticated |
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| burbly | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbling, effusive, gushing |
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| burly | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, husky, strapping |
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| butcherly | (adjective) accompanied by bloodshed | Synonyms: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous |
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| (adjective) poorly done | Synonyms: botchy, unskillful |
| cackly | (adjective) like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg | Synonyms: squawky |
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| childly | (adjective) befitting a young child | Synonyms: childlike |
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| chilly | (adjective) appreciably or disagreeably cold | Synonyms: parky |
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| (adjective) not characterized by emotion | - |
| (adjective) lacking warmth of feeling | - |
| christianly | (adjective) becoming to or like a Christian | - |
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| christly | (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ | Synonyms: christlike |
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| churchly | (adjective) resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church | - |
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| cleanly | (adjective) habitually clean | - |
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| comely | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, fair, sightly |
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| (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 |
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| costly | (adjective) having a high price | Synonyms: dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy |
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| (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 |
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| cousinly | (adjective) like or befitting a cousin | - |
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| cowardly | (adjective) lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted | Synonyms: fearful |
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| crinkly | (adjective) uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves | Synonyms: crinkled, rippled, wavelike, wavy |
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| crumbly | (adjective) easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder | Synonyms: friable |
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| cuddly | (adjective) inviting cuddling or hugging | Synonyms: cuddlesome |
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| curly | (adjective) (of hair) having curls or waves | - |
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| curmudgeonly | (adjective) brusque and surly and forbidding | Synonyms: crusty, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured |
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| daily | (adjective) appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions | Synonyms: casual, everyday |
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| (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 |
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| daughterly | (adjective) befitting a daughter | - |
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| deadly | (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, pernicious, pestilent |
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| (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 |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing death | Synonyms: deadly, mortal |
| disorderly | (adjective) undisciplined and unruly | - |
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| (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 |
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| early | (adjective) at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time | - |
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| (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 | - |
| earthly | (adjective) of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven | - |
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| easterly | (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: eastern |
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| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: eastern |
| ecofriendly | (adjective) Good for the environment | - |
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| elderly | (adjective) advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables) | Synonyms: aged, older, senior |
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| fatherly | (adjective) like or befitting a father or fatherhood; kind and protective | Synonyms: fatherlike |
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| fleshly | (adjective) marked by the appetites and passions of the body | Synonyms: animal, carnal, sensual |
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| fly | (adjective) (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked | - |
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| fortnightly | (adjective) occurring every two weeks | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| friendly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a friend | - |
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| (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 |
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| frizzly | (adjective) (of hair) in small tight curls | Synonyms: crisp, frizzy, kinky, nappy |
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| fugly | (adjective) (slang) extremely ugly | - |
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| gainly | (adjective) graceful and pleasing | - |
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| gangly | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangling, lanky, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangling, lanky |
| gentlemanly | (adjective) befitting a man of good breeding | Synonyms: gentlemanlike |
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| ghastly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| (adjective) gruesomely indicative of death or the dead | Synonyms: charnel, sepulchral |
| ghostly | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual |
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| gingerly | (adjective) with extreme care or delicacy | - |
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| gnarly | (adjective) used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots | Synonyms: gnarled, knobbed, knotted, knotty |
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| godly | (adjective) emanating from God | Synonyms: divine |
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| (adjective) showing great reverence for god | Synonyms: reverent, worshipful |
| goodly | (adjective) large in amount or extent or degree | Synonyms: goodish, healthy, hefty, respectable, sizable, sizeable, tidy |
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| gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
| grisly | (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | Synonyms: ghastly, grim, gruesome, macabre, sick |
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| gristly | (adjective) difficult to chew | Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery |
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| grizzly | (adjective) showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair | Synonyms: gray-haired, gray-headed, gray, grey-haired, grey-headed, grey, hoar, hoary, white-haired |
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| heavenly | (adjective) of or belonging to heaven or god | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | Synonyms: celestial |
| (adjective) of or relating to the sky | Synonyms: celestial |
| hilly | (adjective) having hills and crags | Synonyms: cragged, craggy, mountainous |
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| holy | (adjective) belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power | - |
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| homely | (adjective) having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable | Synonyms: homelike, homey, homy |
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| (adjective) without artificial refinement or elegance | - |
| (adjective) plain and unpretentious | - |
| (adjective) lacking in physical beauty or proportion | Synonyms: plain |
| hourly | (adjective) occurring every hour or payable by the hour | - |
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| housewifely | (adjective) related or suited to a housewife | - |
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| husbandly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a husband | - |
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| (adjective) related to or suited to a husband | - |
| jangly | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangling |
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| jingly | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingling |
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| jolly | (adjective) full of or showing high-spirited merriment | Synonyms: gay, jocund, jovial, merry, mirthful |
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| jowly | (adjective) having sagging folds of flesh beneath the chin or lower jaw | Synonyms: double-chinned, loose-jowled |
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| jungly | (adjective) overgrown with tropical vegetation | - |
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| kindly | (adjective) pleasant and agreeable | - |
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| (adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
| kingly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kinglike |
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| knightly | (adjective) being attentive to women like an ideal knight | Synonyms: chivalrous, gallant |
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| (adjective) characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages | Synonyms: chivalric, mediaeval, medieval |
| knobbly | (adjective) having knobs | Synonyms: knobby |
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| landlubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: lubberly |
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| leisurely | (adjective) not hurried or forced | Synonyms: easy, easygoing |
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| likely | (adjective) has a good chance of being the case or of coming about | - |
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| (adjective) within the realm of credibility | - |
| (adjective) expected to become or be; in prospect | Synonyms: potential |
| lively | (adjective) full of life and energy | - |
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| (adjective) full of spirit; full of life | Synonyms: vital |
| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, resilient, springy |
| (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy |
| (adjective) filled with events or activity | - |
| (adjective) full of zest or vigor | Synonyms: racy |
| loathly | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| lonely | (adjective) marked by dejection from being alone | Synonyms: lonesome |
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| (adjective) lacking companions or companionship | Synonyms: alone, lone, solitary |
| (adjective) devoid of creatures | Synonyms: solitary, unfrequented |
| (adjective) characterized by or preferring solitude | Synonyms: lone, solitary |
| lordly | (adjective) of or befitting a lord | Synonyms: august, grand |
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| (adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy | Synonyms: disdainful, haughty, imperious, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering |
| lovely | (adjective) appealing to the emotions as well as the eye | - |
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| (adjective) lovable especially in a childlike or naive way | Synonyms: adorable, endearing |
| loverly | (adjective) like or in the manner of a lover | Synonyms: loverlike |
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| lowly | (adjective) low or inferior in station or quality | Synonyms: humble, low, modest, small |
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| (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, petty, secondary, subaltern |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: base, baseborn, humble |
| (adjective) used of unskilled work (especially domestic work) | Synonyms: humble, menial |
| lubberly | (adjective) inexperienced in seamanship | Synonyms: landlubberly |
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| (adjective) clumsy and unskilled | - |