Adverbs List | List of 95+ Important Adverbs with “Ly”

Sharing is caring!

Adverbs List in English! Adverbs describe a verb, an adjective or another adverb. List of adverbs below will help you to understand adverbs a little better.

Learn more about important types of adverbs in English.

Adverbs with “LY”

Common Adverbs List

Here is the list of adverbs with “ly”:

• Abruptly
• Absently
• Accusingly
• Actually
• Adversely
• Amazingly
• Angrily
• Arrogantly
• Bashfully
• Beautifully
• Boldly
• Brightly
• Calmly
• Carefully
• Cheaply
• Carelessly
• Certainly
• Clearly
• Closely
• Commonly
• Coolly
• Correctly
• Crossly
• Dearly
• Delightfully
• Desperately
• Determinedly
• Doggedly
• Energetically
• Extremely
• Especially
• Exactly
• Excitedly
• Expertly
• Fairly
• Famously
• Ferociously
• Finally
• Freely
• Fully
• Generally
• Generously
• Gently
• Greedily
• Guiltily
• Harshly
• Heartily
• Heavily
• Helplessly
• Immediately
• Increasingly
• Innocently
• Jokingly
• Knowingly
• Lightly
• Loudly
• Madly
• Meaningfully
• Mentally
• Messily
• Mostly
• Nearly
• Neatly
• Nervously
• Nicely
• Outwardly
• Passionately
• Perfectly
• Perpetually
• Playfully
• Pleasingly
• Poorly
• Powerfully
• Properly
• Proudly
• Queerly
• Quickly
• Rapidly
• Ravenously
• Reassuringly
• Reluctantly
• Sadly
• Scarcely
• Selfishly
• Solidly
• Stingily
• Stubbornly
• Suspiciously
• Thoroughly
• Thoughtfully
• Tremendously
• Truthfully
• Understandingly
• Unfairly
• Unhappily
• Unwillingly
• Viciously
• Wholly

Adverbs List with Example Sentences

Here is the adverbs list with useful examples sentences in English:

Abruptly

• She left the room abruptly without explanation.

Absently

• She absently twisted her wedding ring.

Accusingly

• She glared at him accusingly.

Actually

• Actually, it’s I that owe you a lot.

Adversely

• His health was adversely affected by the climate.

Amazingly

• Amazingly, the bullet did not penetrate his brain.

Angrily

• The vein at his temple throbbed angrily.

Arrogantly

• He backed out arrogantly and without apology.

Bashfully

• The boy smiled bashfully at the visitor.

Beautifully

• She looked attractive and beautifully dressed.

Boldly

• He stepped boldly forward to speak.

Brightly

• There were several brightly coloured rugs scattered around.

Calmly

• He smiled calmly at the idiocies of mankind.

Carefully

• She carefully preserved all his letters.

Cheaply

• Old bikes can be bought quite cheaply.

Carelessly

• I carelessly knocked the chair down.

Certainly

• The design certainly looks good on paper.

Clearly

• The house is clearly visible from the beach.

Closely

• She listened closely while he read the letter.

Commonly

• He is commonly supposed to be foolish.

Coolly

• She nodded coolly and walked out.

Correctly

• The children have not yet learned to punctuate correctly.

Crossly

• Crossly, he came out of the bushes and searched around for a dock leaf.

Dearly

• He paid dearly for his careless slip.

Delightfully

• The hotel is delightfully situated close to the waterfront.

Desperately

• We are trying desperately to keep to our schedule.

Determinedly

• He continued determinedly despite his injury.

Doggedly

• He was still doggedly pursuing his studies.

Energetically

• The swimmer dived into the water and swam energetically away.

Extremely

• I found his manner extremely unpleasant.

Especially

• I love Italy, especially in summer.

Exactly

• The viola is exactly in counterpoint to the first violin.

Excitedly

• The children babbled excitedly among themselves.

Expertly

• The nurse disrobed the elderly patient expertly.

Fairly

• She’s fairly responsive to new ideas.

Famously

• He was a famously peppery lawyer.

Ferociously

• A female lion defends her young ferociously.

Finally

• They finally found the cat up on the roof.

Freely

• They freely admit they still have a lot to learn.

Fully

• The course of events fully justifies our views.

Generally

• It was generally admitted that the government had acted too quickly.

Generously

• Many people contributed generously to the appeal.

Gently

• A piano tinkled gently in the background.

Greedily

• The children eyed the cakes greedily.

Guiltily

• He glanced guiltily over his shoulder.

Harshly

• He was harshly attacked by critics.

Heartily

• I am heartily sick of the whole situation.

Heavily

• The boat rolled heavily in the troughs between the waves.

Helplessly

• We slid helplessly down the slope.

Immediately

• He lay down and was asleep immediately.

Increasingly

• He was finding it increasingly difficult to make decisions.

Innocently

• The baby gurgled innocently on the bed.

Jokingly

• I said it half-jokingly.

Knowingly

• She smiled knowingly at us.

Lightly

• She ran lightly up the stairs.

Loudly

• We all laughed loudly when she made a joke.

Madly

• They plied their paste brushes madly.

Meaningfully

• The priceless days must be spent meaningfully, joyfully.

Mentally

•  I think you are mentally tired.

Messily

• She wrote it hastily and messily on a scrap of paper.

Mostly

• This area of the country is mostly desert.

Nearly

• Nearly all the tractors operate on diesel oil.

Neatly

• Children must learn to write neatly.

Nervously

• I walked nervously up the garden path towards the front door.

Nicely

• We are bumming along the road nicely.

Outwardly

• Though badly frightened, she appeared outwardly calm.

Passionately

• She could hate as passionately as she could love.

Perfectly

• It seems a perfectly reasonable request to make.

Perpetually

• She wore a perpetually martyred expression.

Playfully

• His brother cuffed him playfully round the head.

Pleasingly

• She had a pleasingly direct manner.

Poorly

•  The job is relatively poorly paid.

Powerfully

• He felt himself so powerfully attracted to the scientific ideal.

Properly

• There are too many distractions here to work properly.

Proudly

• She sat proudly astride her new motorbike.

Queerly

• He looked at me queerly.

Quickly

• She trussed him quickly with stolen bandage, and gagged his mouth.

Rapidly

• The puddle evaporated rapidly in the sun.

Ravenously

• The boy ate gratefully and ravenously.

Reassuringly

• He patted her knee reassuringly.

Stubbornly

• He stubbornly insisted on doing it all himself.

Suspiciously

• The man behind the desk eyed us suspiciously.

Thoroughly

• He is thoroughly domesticated and cooks a delicious chicken casserole.

Thoughtfully

• He drew thoughtfully on his pipe.

Tremendously

• He was a tremendously enthusiastic teacher and that rubbed off on all the children.

Truthfully

• I answered all their questions truthfully.

Unwillingly

• He submitted unwillingly to his mother.

Viciously

• He viciously bayoneted the straw dummy.

Wholly

• He was completely/totally/wholly unprepared for what he saw.

List of Adverbs | Infographics

List of Common Adverbs in English| Images