vindictively
adverb
vindictively is an adverb meaning “In a vindictive manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-N-D-I-C-T-I-V-E-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does vindictively mean?
adverb
- 1
In a vindictive manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vindictively?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-vindictively.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of vindictively
- more vindictively comparative
- most vindictively superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vindictively?
Vindictively appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 vindictively come from?
From vindictive + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).