🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Temporary"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "temporary" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| extraordinary | 5 | noun | Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual. |
| contemporary | 5 | noun | Modern, of the present age (shorthand for ‘contemporary with the present’). |
| contrary | 3 | noun | Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse. |
| sanctuary | 4 | noun | A place of safety, refuge, or protection. |
| solitary | 4 | noun | Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present |
| arbitrary | 4 | noun | (usually of a decision) Based on individual discretion or judgment; not based on any objective distinction, perhaps even made at random. |
| wary | 2 | verb | Cautious of danger; carefully watching and guarding against deception, trickery, and dangers; suspiciously prudent |
| ordinary | 4 | noun | A person with authority; authority, ordinance. |
| tarry | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. |
| emissary | 4 | noun | An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else. |
| carry | 2 | verb | (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting. |
| ancillary | 4 | noun | Subordinate; secondary; auxiliary. |
| airy | 2 | noun | Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy. |
| visionary | 4 | noun | Having vision or foresight. |
| preliminary | 5 | noun | In preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory. |
| customary | 4 | noun | In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage. |
| necessary | 4 | noun | Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty. |
| primary | 3 | noun | First or earliest in a group or series. |
| corollary | 4 | noun | (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition. |
| luminary | 4 | noun | One who is an inspiration to others; one who has achieved success in one's chosen field; a leading light. |
| involuntary | 5 | Not voluntary or willing; contrary or opposed to explicit will or desire; unwilling. | |
| mercenary | 4 | noun | A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain. |
| beneficiary | 6 | noun | One who benefits or receives an advantage. |
| sedentary | 4 | noun | (medicine, of a job, lifestyle, etc.) Not moving much; sitting around. |
| canary | 3 | noun | A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands. |
| fairy | 2 | noun | (mythology) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism. |
| subsidiary | 5 | noun | A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company. |
| salutary | 4 | Promoting good health and physical well-being; wholesome; curative. | |
| military | 4 | noun | (Canada, US) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces). |
| commentary | 4 | noun | An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs. |
| unnecessary | 5 | Not needed or necessary. | |
| dignitary | 4 | noun | An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position. |
| apothecary | 5 | noun | (archaic in US, dated in UK) Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras. |
| secondary | 4 | noun | Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc. |
| bury | 2 | verb | To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. |
| tributary | 4 | noun | (hydrology) A natural water stream that flows into a larger river or other body of water. |
| legendary | 4 | noun | Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories. |
| glary | 2 | Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining. | |
| merry | 2 | noun | Jolly and full of high spirits; happy. |
| mortuary | 4 | noun | A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home. |
| savagery | 4 | noun | (uncountable) Savage or brutal behaviour; barbarity. |
| scary | 2 | noun | (now chiefly informal) Causing fear or anxiety |
| eyrie | 2 | noun | The nest of a bird of prey. |
| cherry | 2 | noun | A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem. |
| seminary | 4 | noun | A theological school for the training of rabbis, priests, or ministers. |
| vocabulary | 5 | noun | The collection of words a person knows and uses. |
| epistolary | 5 | noun | Of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters. |
| functionary | 4 | noun | A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required. |
| proprietary | 5 | noun | Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner or licensee of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret. |
| itinerary | 5 | noun | A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip. |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Temporary"
43 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| heavy | 2 | noun | (of any physical thing) Having great weight. |
| weary | 2 | verb | Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued. |
| sentry | 2 | noun | A guard, particularly on duty at the entrance to a military base. |
| flurry | 2 | noun | A light, brief snowfall; a shower of snow. |
| worry | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. |
| steady | 2 | verb | Constant in feeling, purpose, or pursuit; not fickle, changeable, or wavering; not easily moved or persuaded to alter a purpose; resolute. |
| theory | 2 | noun | (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena and correctly predicts new facts or phenomena not previously observed, or which sets out the laws and principles of something known or observed; a hypothesis confirmed by observation, experiment etc. |
| dreary | 2 | noun | Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless. |
| gentry | 2 | noun | People of education and good breeding. |
| entry | 2 | noun | An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia. |
| fairly | 2 | (degree) Partly, not fully; somewhat. | |
| ready | 2 | verb | Prepared for immediate action or use. |
| hurry | 2 | noun | (intransitive) To do things quickly. |
| complementary | 4 | noun | Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else. |
| plenty | 2 | noun | A more-than-adequate amount; plenitude. |
| belly | 2 | noun | The abdomen (especially a fat one). |
| deadly | 2 | Causing death; lethal. | |
| buried | 2 | Concealed, hidden. | |
| teary | 2 | Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry. | |
| contemporaries | 5 | noun | all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age |
| any | 2 | To even the slightest extent, at all. | |
| barely | 2 | (not comparable, degree) By a small margin. | |
| rarely | 2 | Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often. | |
| smelly | 2 | noun | Having a bad smell. |
| penny | 2 | noun | In the United Kingdom, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₁₀₀ of a pound sterling, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: p. |
| married | 2 | noun | In a state of marriage; having a wife or a husband. |
| already | 3 | Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. | |
| messy | 2 | (of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly. | |
| blurry | 2 | (of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges. | |
| henry | 2 | noun | In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H |
| tempe | 2 | noun | A city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. |
| dictionaries | 4 | noun | A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information. |
| ledger entry | 4 | noun | a written record of a commercial transaction |
| berries | 2 | noun | A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties. |
| credit entry | 4 | noun | an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items |
| temporaries | 4 | noun | The characteristic of being temporary. |
| beary | 2 | noun | (informal) Of or pertaining to a bear. |
| ceccarelli | 4 | noun | A surname from Italian. |
| eveready | 4 | noun | — |
| many | 2 | noun | Existing in large number; numerous. |
| medi | 2 | noun | — |
| sara | 2 | noun | A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], variant of Sarah. |
| terror | 2 | noun | (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear. |
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