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venomously

/ˈvɛnəməsli/adverb

venomously is an adverb meaning “In a venomous manner; with venom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-N-O-M-O-U-S-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does venomously mean?

adverb

  1. 1

    In a venomous manner; with venom.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce venomously?

  • /ˈvɛnəməsli/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-venomously.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of venomously

  • more venomously comparative
  • most venomously superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is venomously?

Venomously appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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 venomously come from?

Inherited from Middle English venymously; by surface analysis, venomous + -ly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).