Adverbs Ending in ELY and Containing PE

Explore 90 verified English adverbs ending in ELY and containing PE, including Desperately, Respectively, Competitively, Retrospectively, Pensively, Cooperatively and Prospectively. Browse these modifying words for manner, time, place, and degree below, or study adverb placement and -ly formation rules in our verb grammar guide.

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Starts with A
2 words
appellatively
aspersively
Starts with C
3 words
competitively
cooperatively
circumspectively
Starts with D
4 words
desperately
dispersively
dispensatively
deperditely
Starts with E
2 words
expensively
expeditely
Starts with H
5 words
hyperactively
hyperconservatively
hyperspeculatively
hyperobtrusively
hyperexcursively
Starts with I
11 words
inexpensively
imperatively
introspectively
irrespectively
intemperately
imperceptively
imperfectively
inoperatively
interpenetratively
intempestively
interpervasively
Starts with N
4 words
noncompetitively
nonspeculatively
nonintrospectively
nonvituperatively
Starts with O
4 words
operatively
overspeculatively
overcompetitively
operosely
Starts with P
23 words
pensively
prospectively
persuasively
perversely
pervasively
perceptively
pejoratively
performatively
postoperatively
permissively
preoperatively
penultimately
percussively
penetratively
perfectively
prepensely
pectinately
perspectively
pedately
peltately
propensely
pseudocompetitively
penicillately
Starts with R
4 words
respectively
retrospectively
repetitively
ripely
Starts with S
18 words
speculatively
superlatively
supereffectively
suspensively
serpentinely
superoffensively
shipshapely
superfortunately
superexquisitely
superelaborately
superattractively
specificatively
superinquisitively
superconservatively
superinclusively
superexpressively
semispeculatively
superobstinately
Starts with T
1 words
temperately
Starts with U
8 words
uncooperatively
uncompetitively
unpersuasively
unintrospectively
unperceptively
unexpensively
unripely
unvituperatively
Starts with V
1 words
vituperatively

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