venomous
Meaning of venomous
- (of an animal, especially a snake) secreting venom; capable of injecting venom by means of a bite or sting.
a leading expert on venomous snakes
Middle English: from Old French venimeux, from venim (see venom).
Information about venomous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of venomous
ven-omous
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- venomous is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
venomous synonyms
Meaning deadly:
Meaning acerb:
acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic
Meaning poisonous:
Meaning harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant:
Meaning able or likely to cause harm or injury:
Meaning causing or likely to cause harm:
Meaning very harmful or destructive:
Meaning causing death:
Meaning (of a living human being, often in contrast to a divine being) subject to death:
Meaning forming or situated at the end or extremity of something:
Meaning resembling or suggestive of death:
Meaning noxious, harmful, or poisonous:
Meaning (especially of a gas or vapour) foul-smelling; noxious:
Meaning harmful or destructive:
venomous antonyms
Meaning not able or likely to cause harm:
Meaning not harmful or offensive:
Words that rhyme with venomous
mous, acrogamous, aetheogamous, agamous, allogamous, amphigamous, androdynamous, anisogamous, apogamous, apoplastogamous, archicleistogamous, athalamous, autoallogamous, autogamous, balsamous, basigamous, basosquamous, bigamous, biramous, chasmogamous, cleistogamous, cryptogamous, defamous, diamesogamous, dichogamous, didynamous, digamous, dioeciopolygamous, endogamous, enfamous, exogamous, famous, geitonogamous, hamous, hercogamous, heterogamous, hippodamous, hologamous, homodynamous, homogamous, hypergamous, idiothalamous, infamous, isodynamous, isogamous, longanamous, mastoideosquamous, mastosquamous, monogamous, monothalamous