Adjectives That End in ELY

Explore 43 verified English adjectives ending with the suffix -ELY, including Likely, Lovely, Unlikely, Lonely, Lively, Timely and Untimely. Useful for character descriptions, creative writing, and compliment lists and rhyming patterns, browse these describing words and descriptive modifiers below or check adjective order and comparative rules in our adjective grammar guide.

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Starts with A
1 words
alonely
Starts with B
2 words
bridely
behovely
comely
comradely
creaturely
cranely
Starts with E
1 words
eely
Starts with F
2 words
featurely
fishwifely
Starts with G
1 words
gradely
Starts with H
2 words
homely
housewifely
likely
lovely
lonely
lively
leisurely
Starts with M
2 words
minutely
manlikely
Starts with O
1 words
overtimely
Starts with P
1 words
princely
stately
steely
shapely
snively
seely
samely
squirely
skeely
Starts with T
1 words
timely
unlikely
untimely
unlovely
unshapely
unhomely
uncomely
unprincely
unlively
unwifely
unleisurely
Starts with W
2 words
wifely
whitely

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