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9 Adjectives That End With STLY

Part of Speech:
Word Definitions Synonyms
beastly (adjective) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility Synonyms: bestial, brutal, brute, brutish
(adjective) (informal) very unpleasant Synonyms: god-awful, hellish
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
christly (adjective) resembling or showing the spirit of Christ Synonyms: christlike
costly (adjective) having a high price Synonyms: dear, high-priced, pricey, pricy
(adjective) entailing great loss or sacrifice Synonyms: dearly-won
ghastly (adjective) shockingly repellent; inspiring horror Synonyms: grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
(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
gristly (adjective) difficult to chew Synonyms: cartilaginous, rubbery
priestly (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a priest or the priesthood Synonyms: priestlike
(adjective) associated with the priesthood or priests Synonyms: hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal
unpriestly (adjective) not priestly; unbefitting a priest

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