Adjectives that look like adverbs

Adjectives that look like Adverbs Here is a list of adjectives that end in -ly and sometimes get mistaken for adverbs: • Beastly • Brotherly • Comely • Costly • Cowardly • Daily (Can also be an adverb) • Deadly • Elderly • Fatherly • Fortnightly (Can also be an adverb) • Friendly • Gentlemanly • Gentlewomanly • Ghastly • Ghostly • Godly • Goodly • Holy • Homely • Humanly • Kingly • Leisurely • Likely • Lively • Lonely • Lovely • Lowly • Maidenly • Manly • Masterly • Matronly • Miserly • Monthly (Can also be an adverb) • Motherly • Nightly • Painterly • Priestly • Princely • Saintly • Scholarly • Shapely • Silly • Sisterly • Timely • Ugly • Ungainly • Unruly • Unsightly • Unseemly • Unworldly • Weekly (Can also be an adverb) • Womanly • Worldly • Yearly (Can also be an adverb) Articles Index From Adjectives to HOME PAGE

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