poisonously

1. 1.

   in a very malevolent manner

   Synonymsvenomously

Questions about poisonously

What does poisonously mean?

poisonously means "in a very malevolent manner".

How many syllables are in poisonously?

poisonously has 4 syllables and divides as poi-so-nou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for poisonously?

Close synonyms include venomously. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is poisonously a common word?

poisonously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.