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say it: VEE-nuhl
venal is an adjective meaning "capable of being corrupted". It is pronounced /ˈvinəl/ — VEE-nuhl. It carries one recorded sense.
capable of being corrupted
“corruptible judges”
“dishonest politicians”
“a purchasable senator”
“a venal police officer”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for venal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.