| about | (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: approximately, around, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
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| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) in rotation or succession | - |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: around |
| (adverb) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but | Synonyms: almost, most, near, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: around |
| abruptly | (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
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| absolutely | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: dead, perfectly, utterly |
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| (adverb) totally and definitely; without question | - |
| abstemiously | (adverb) in a sparing manner; without overindulgence | Synonyms: temperately |
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| abstrusely | (adverb) in a manner difficult to understand | - |
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| absurdly | (adverb) in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree | - |
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| abundantly | (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: copiously, extravagantly, profusely |
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| abusively | (adverb) in an abusive manner | - |
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| accurately | (adverb) with few mistakes | - |
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| (adverb) strictly correctly | - |
| accusingly | (adverb) in an accusing manner | - |
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| acoustically | (adverb) with respect to acoustics | - |
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| actually | (adverb) used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly | Synonyms: in reality |
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| (adverb) in actual fact | Synonyms: really |
| (adverb) as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; as a modifier to add slight emphasis | - |
| (adverb) at present | - |
| acutely | (adverb) having a rapid onset | - |
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| (adverb) in a keen or penetrating way | Synonyms: keenly |
| (adverb) changing suddenly in direction and degree | Synonyms: sharp, sharply |
| (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: astutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
| adequately | (adverb) in an adequate manner or to an adequate degree | - |
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| adulterously | (adverb) in an adulterous manner | - |
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| advantageously | (adverb) in a manner affording benefit or advantage | Synonyms: well |
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| aground | (adverb) with the bottom lodged on the ground | - |
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| aloud | (adverb) using the voice; not silently | Synonyms: out loud |
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| (adverb) with relatively high volume | Synonyms: loud, loudly |
| altruistically | (adverb) in an altruistic manner | Synonyms: selflessly |
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| amateurishly | (adverb) in an amateurish manner | - |
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| ambiguously | (adverb) in an ambiguous manner | Synonyms: equivocally |
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| ambitiously | (adverb) with ambition; in an ambitious and energetic manner | Synonyms: determinedly |
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| amorously | (adverb) in an amorous manner | - |
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| amuck | (adverb) in a murderous frenzy | Synonyms: amok, murderously |
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| (adverb) wildly; without self-control | Synonyms: amok |
| amusingly | (adverb) in an entertaining and amusing manner | Synonyms: divertingly |
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| analogously | (adverb) in an analogous manner | - |
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| annually | (adverb) without missing a year | Synonyms: each year, every year, yearly |
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| (adverb) by the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received) | Synonyms: each year, p.a., per annum, per year |
| anomalously | (adverb) in an anomalous manner | - |
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| anonymously | (adverb) without giving a name | - |
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| anxiously | (adverb) with anxiety or apprehension | Synonyms: apprehensively, uneasily |
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| architecturally | (adverb) with regard to architecture | - |
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| arduously | (adverb) in an arduous manner | - |
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| arguably | (adverb) as can be shown by argument | - |
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| argumentatively | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: disputatiously |
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| around | (adverb) in circumference | - |
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| (adverb) in the area or vicinity | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) from beginning to end; throughout | Synonyms: round |
| (adverb) (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct | Synonyms: about, approximately, close to, just about, more or less, or so, roughly, some |
| (adverb) used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) by a circular or circuitous route | - |
| (adverb) in a circle or circular motion | - |
| (adverb) all around or on all sides | Synonyms: about |
| (adverb) to a particular destination either specified or understood | - |
| (adverb) in or to a reversed position or direction | Synonyms: about |
| artfully | (adverb) in a manner exhibiting art or skill | - |
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| (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: disingenuously |
| (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: craftily, cunningly, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
| articulately | (adverb) in an articulate manner | Synonyms: eloquently |
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| (adverb) with eloquence | Synonyms: eloquently |
| asexually | (adverb) in an asexual manner | - |
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| assiduously | (adverb) with care and persistence | - |
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| assuredly | (adverb) without a doubt | - |
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| astutely | (adverb) in a shrewd manner | Synonyms: acutely, sagaciously, sapiently, shrewdly |
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| asunder | (adverb) into parts or pieces | Synonyms: apart |
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| atrociously | (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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| (adverb) to an extravagant or immoderate degree | Synonyms: outrageously |
| attributively | (adverb) in an attributive manner | - |
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| audaciously | (adverb) in an audacious manner | - |
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| audibly | (adverb) in an audible manner | - |
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| aurally | (adverb) with regard to sound or the ear | - |
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| auspiciously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: propitiously |
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| austerely | (adverb) in an austere fashion | - |
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| authentically | (adverb) genuinely; with authority | Synonyms: genuinely |
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| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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| autocratically | (adverb) in an autocratic manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an overbearingly domineering manner; as a dictator | Synonyms: dictatorially, magisterially |
| automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |
| avariciously | (adverb) in a greedy manner | Synonyms: covetously, greedily |
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| awful | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awfully, frightfully, terribly |
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| awfully | (adverb) used as intensifiers | Synonyms: awful, frightfully, terribly |
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| (adverb) of a dreadful kind | Synonyms: dreadfully, horribly |
| (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, atrociously, rottenly, terribly |
| balefully | (adverb) in a baleful manner | - |
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| banefully | (adverb) in a noxiously baneful way | Synonyms: perniciously |
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| barbarously | (adverb) in a barbarous manner | - |
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| bashfully | (adverb) in a shy or timid or bashful manner | Synonyms: shyly, timidly |
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| beautifully | (adverb) in a beautiful manner | Synonyms: attractively |
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| biannually | (adverb) twice a year | - |
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| bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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| binaurally | (adverb) in a binaural manner | Synonyms: in both ears, to both ears |
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| blasphemously | (adverb) in a blasphemous manner | - |
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| blissfully | (adverb) in a blissful manner | - |
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| bluffly | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluntly, brusquely, flat out, roundly |
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| bluntly | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, brusquely, flat out, roundly |
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| boastfully | (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, large, vauntingly |
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| boisterously | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: rollickingly |
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| boundlessly | (adverb) without bounds | Synonyms: immeasurably, infinitely |
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| bounteously | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bountifully, plenteously, plentifully |
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| bountifully | (adverb) in a bountiful manner | Synonyms: bounteously, plenteously, plentifully |
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| brusquely | (adverb) in a blunt direct manner | Synonyms: bluffly, bluntly, flat out, roundly |
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| brutally | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: savagely, viciously |
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| brutishly | (adverb) in the manner of a beast | Synonyms: bestially, in a beastly manner |
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| bumptiously | (adverb) in a bumptious manner | - |
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| buoyantly | (adverb) in a cheerfully buoyant manner | Synonyms: chirpily |
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| bureaucratically | (adverb) with respect to bureaucracy | - |
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| (adverb) in a bureaucratic manner | - |
| busily | (adverb) in a busy manner | - |
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| but | (adverb) and nothing more | Synonyms: just, merely, only, simply |
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| buxomly | (adverb) in a curvaceous way | Synonyms: curvaceously |
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| calculatingly | (adverb) in a calculating manner | - |
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| callously | (adverb) in a callous way | Synonyms: unfeelingly |
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| calumniously | (adverb) in a false and slanderous and defamatory manner; with slander or calumny | Synonyms: slanderously |
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| cantankerously | (adverb) in a bad mood | - |
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| capriciously | (adverb) in a capricious manner | - |
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| (adverb) unpredictably | Synonyms: freakishly |
| captiously | (adverb) in a captious, carping manner | - |
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| carefully | (adverb) taking care or paying attention | - |
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| (adverb) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | Synonyms: cautiously, with kid gloves |
| casually | (adverb) in an unconcerned manner | Synonyms: nonchalantly |
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| (adverb) not methodically or according to plan | - |
| caudal | (adverb) toward the posterior end of the body | Synonyms: caudally |
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| caudally | (adverb) toward the posterior end of the body | Synonyms: caudal |
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| causally | (adverb) in a causal fashion | - |
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| caustically | (adverb) in a caustic vitriolic manner | Synonyms: vitriolically |
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| cautiously | (adverb) as if with kid gloves; with caution or prudence or tact | Synonyms: carefully, with kid gloves |
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| (adverb) in a conservative manner | Synonyms: conservatively, guardedly |
| ceremoniously | (adverb) in a ceremonious manner | Synonyms: ceremonially |
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| cheerfully | (adverb) in a cheerful manner | - |
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| chivalrously | (adverb) in a gallant manner | Synonyms: gallantly |
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| churlishly | (adverb) in a churlish manner | Synonyms: surlily |
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| circularly | (adverb) in a circular manner | - |
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