| maidenly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a maiden | Synonyms: maidenlike |
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| manly | (adjective) possessing qualities befitting a man | Synonyms: manful, manlike |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a man | Synonyms: male, manful, manlike, virile |
| mannerly | (adjective) socially correct in behavior | Synonyms: well-mannered |
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| marly | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or abounding in marl | - |
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| masterly | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterful, virtuoso |
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| matronly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a fully mature woman | - |
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| meagerly | (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagre, scrimpy, stingy |
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| mealy | (adjective) containing meal or made of meal | - |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty |
| measly | (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: miserable, paltry |
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| melancholy | (adjective) grave or even gloomy in character | Synonyms: somber, sombre |
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| (adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness | Synonyms: melancholic |
| midweekly | (adjective) occurring during the middle of the week | - |
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| miserly | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, mingy, tight |
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| monthly | (adjective) of or occurring or payable every month | - |
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| motherly | (adjective) befitting a mother; warm and nurturing | - |
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| neighborly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighbourly |
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| neighbourly | (adjective) exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor | Synonyms: neighborly |
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| niggardly | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, scrimy |
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| nightly | (adjective) happening every night | - |
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| northeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeast |
| northerly | (adjective) coming from the north; used especially of wind | Synonyms: northern |
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| (adjective) oriented toward the north | Synonyms: northern |
| northwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northwest | Synonyms: northwest, northwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest |
| nubbly | (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: homespun, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
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| oily | (adjective) coated or covered with oil | - |
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| (adjective) smeared or soiled with grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy |
| (adjective) containing an unusual amount of grease or oil | Synonyms: greasy, oleaginous, sebaceous |
| (adjective) unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech | Synonyms: buttery, fulsome, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous |
| only | (adjective) exclusive of anyone or anything else | Synonyms: alone |
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| (adjective) being the only one; single and isolated from others | Synonyms: lone, lonesome, sole, solitary |
| orderly | (adjective) devoid of violence or disruption | - |
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| (adjective) clean or organized | Synonyms: neat |
| otherworldly | (adjective) existing outside of or not in accordance with nature | Synonyms: nonnatural, preternatural, transcendental |
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| painterly | (adjective) having qualities unique to the art of painting | - |
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| pally | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, matey, palsy-walsy |
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| pearly | (adjective) of a white the color of pearls | Synonyms: pearly-white |
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| pebbly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, shingly |
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| pimply | (adjective) (of complexion) blemished by imperfections of the skin | Synonyms: acned, pimpled, pustulate |
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| poorly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| portly | (adjective) euphemisms for `fat' | Synonyms: stout |
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| prickly | (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, splenetic, waspish |
| priestly | (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood | Synonyms: priestlike |
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| (adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests | Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal |
| princely | (adjective) having the rank of or befitting a prince | - |
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| (adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality | Synonyms: deluxe, gilded, grand, lush, luxurious, opulent, sumptuous |
| quarterly | (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of a quarter | - |
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| queenly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen | Synonyms: queenlike |
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| rascally | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, roguish, scoundrelly |
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| (adjective) playful in an appealingly bold way | Synonyms: devilish, roguish |
| roily | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roiling, turbulent |
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| ruffianly | (adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: tough |
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| ruly | (adjective) neat and tidy | - |
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| saintly | (adjective) marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint | Synonyms: angelic, angelical, beatific, sainted, saintlike |
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| scaly | (adjective) having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles | Synonyms: scaled, scaley |
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| (adjective) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf | Synonyms: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scurfy |
| scholarly | (adjective) characteristic of scholars or scholarship | - |
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| scoundrelly | (adjective) lacking principles or scruples | Synonyms: blackguardly, rascally, roguish |
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| scrabbly | (adjective) sparsely covered with stunted trees or vegetation and underbrush | Synonyms: scrubby |
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| scraggly | (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
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| (adjective) ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance | - |
| seamanly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a seaman; indicating competent seamanship | Synonyms: seamanlike |
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| seemly | (adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous |
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| semimonthly | (adjective) occurring twice a month | Synonyms: bimonthly |
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| semiweekly | (adjective) occurring twice a week | Synonyms: biweekly |
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| shapely | (adjective) having a well-proportioned and pleasing shape | - |
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| shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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| shoaly | (adjective) full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals | Synonyms: reefy, shelfy, shelvy |
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| sickly | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, under the weather, unwell |
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| (adjective) unhealthy looking | Synonyms: sallow |
| sightly | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, fair |
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| silly | (adjective) dazed from or as if from repeated blows | Synonyms: punch-drunk, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) ludicrous, foolish | Synonyms: goofy, wacky, whacky, zany |
| (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded |
| (adjective) inspiring scornful pity | Synonyms: pathetic, ridiculous |
| sisterly | (adjective) like or characteristic of or befitting a sister | Synonyms: sisterlike, sororal |
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| slatternly | (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women | Synonyms: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish |
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| slovenly | (adjective) negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt | Synonyms: frowsy, frowzy |
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| sly | (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, tricksy, tricky, wily |
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| smelly | (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, stinking |
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| snarly | (adjective) tangled in knots or snarls | Synonyms: knotty, snarled |
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| sniffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: snuffling, snuffly |
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| snuffly | (adjective) liable to sniffle | Synonyms: sniffly, snuffling |
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| soldierly | (adjective) (of persons) befitting a warrior | Synonyms: martial, soldierlike, warriorlike |
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| southeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southeast | Synonyms: southeast, southeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southeast | Synonyms: southeast |
| southerly | (adjective) from the south; used especially of wind | Synonyms: southern |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the south | Synonyms: southern |
| southwesterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the southwest | Synonyms: southwest, southwestern |
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| (adjective) coming from the southwest | Synonyms: southwest |
| spangly | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled |
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| sparkly | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, scintillating |
| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| squally | (adjective) characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by short periods of noisy commotion | Synonyms: squalling |
| squiggly | (adjective) wavy and twisting | - |
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| stately | (adjective) refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court | Synonyms: courtly, formal |
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| (adjective) impressive in size, manner, or appearance | Synonyms: baronial, imposing, noble |
| (adjective) of size and dignity suggestive of a statue | Synonyms: statuesque |
| statesmanly | (adjective) marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman | Synonyms: statesmanlike |
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| steely | (adjective) resembling steel in hardness | - |
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| (adjective) resembling steel as in hardness | - |
| stilly | (adjective) (poetic) still or calm | - |
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| straggly | (adjective) growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly | - |
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| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, sprawling, straggling |
| stubbly | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbled |
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| surly | (adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: ugly |
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| tiddly | (adjective) slightly intoxicated | Synonyms: potty, tipsy |
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| timely | (adjective) done or happening at the appropriate or proper time | Synonyms: seasonable, well-timed, well timed |
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| (adjective) before a time limit expires | - |
| tinkly | (adjective) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell | Synonyms: tinkling |
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| tinselly | (adjective) glittering with gold or silver | Synonyms: clinquant, tinseled |
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| treacly | (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, syrupy |
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| twinkly | (adjective) smiling with happiness or optimism | Synonyms: beamish, smiling |
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| ugly | (adjective) displeasing to the senses | - |
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| (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
| (adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: surly |
| (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, horrifying |
| unchristianly | (adjective) not becoming to or like a Christian | Synonyms: unchristlike |
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| uncleanly | (adjective) habitually unclean | - |
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| uncomely | (adjective) not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society | Synonyms: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unseemly, untoward |
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| uncousinly | (adjective) not befitting a cousin | - |
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| unearthly | (adjective) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences | Synonyms: eldritch, uncanny, weird |
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| (adjective) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul | Synonyms: spiritual |
| unfriendly | (adjective) not disposed to friendship or friendliness | - |
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| (adjective) not easy to understand or use | - |
| (adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: hostile, uncongenial |
| (adjective) not friendly | Synonyms: inimical |
| ungainly | (adjective) lacking grace in movement or posture | Synonyms: clumsy, clunky, gawky, unwieldy |
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| (adjective) difficult to handle or manage especially because of shape | Synonyms: awkward, bunglesome, clumsy |
| ungentlemanly | (adjective) not befitting a gentleman | Synonyms: ungentlemanlike |
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