resentfully
adverb
resentfully is an adverb meaning “In a resentful manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-S-E-N-T-F-U-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does resentfully mean?
adverb
- 1
In a resentful manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce resentfully?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-resentfully.flac, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of resentfully
- more resentfully comparative
- most resentfully superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is resentfully?
Resentfully appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does resentfully come from?
From resentful + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).