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Definition: Venal |
VenalAdjective1. Capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "venal" was first used: 1652. (references) |
Synonyms: VenalSynonyms: bribable (adj), corruptible (adj), dishonest (adj), purchasable (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Corrupt, venal; debased, mongrel. |
Parsimony | Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious. |
Price | Adjective: priced; Verb: to the tune of, ad valorem; dutiable; mercenary, venal. |
Selfishness | Illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Venal |
| English words defined with "venal": bribable ♦ corruptible ♦ dishonest ♦ purchasable. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "venal": Saturnian Days. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Venal" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (purchasable, venal), Romanian (corrupt, corruptible, venal), Spanish (venal). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Now what we need is a venal doctor (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets (Taxi Driver; writing credit: Paul Schrader) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Venal Kinavukal (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
John Bright | If mine were a solitary voice, raised amid the din or arms and the clamours of a venal press . . . |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Venal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Venal" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "venal": out of venal interests ♦ venal judges. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
venal | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "venal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ryshfetçi (grafter, vendible), i shitur (fixed, sold, unavailable), i korruptuar (bribed, corrupt, vendible). (various references) | |
Arabic | مشترى بالمال, قابل للرشوة, قائم على الرشوة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | користолюбив (acquisitive, mercenary), користен (interested, mercenary, self-interested), продажен (bribable, corrupt, corruptible, mercenary, purchasable, reptile, salable, saleable), подкупен (bribable, bribed, corruptible, purchasable). (various references) | |
Czech | zištný (acquisitive, mercenary), prodejný (corrupt, loose, marketable, purchasable, salable, saleable, vendible), kramářský, korupèní, úplatný (bribable, corrupt, corruptible). (various references) | |
Farsi | فروتن (Courteous, Daft, Humble, Low, Lowly, Meek, Modest, Slight, Submissive, Unassuming, Unpretentious), پولی (Monetary, Pecuniary, Pocket), پول بگیر, پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Little, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), رشوه خوار (Barrator). (various references) | |
French | vénal. (various references) | |
German | käuflich (bribable, buyable, for sale, mercenarily, mercenary, purchasable, venally). (various references) | |
Greek | εξαγοραζόμενοσ (corruptible), ευκολώσ δωροδοκούμενοσ, αργυρώνητοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוח" (biassed, bribed, corrupt, partial, prejudiced), שחי" (bribable, corrupt), תן לשחו". (various references) | |
Hungarian | megvesztegethetõ (bribable, corrupt, corruptible), megvesztegethető (accommodating, corruptive), megvásárolható (for disposal, mercenary, purchasable), haszonleső (eager for gain, mercenary, utilitarian), eres (vascular, venous). (various references) | |
Italian | venale (market). (various references) | |
Manx | ry chreck (for sale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enalvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | venal (purchasable), que se vende, mercenário (employee, mercantile, mercenary). (various references) | |
Romanian | venal (corrupt, corruptible), corupt (corrupt, depraved, lax, prostitute, rotten, scrofulous). (various references) | |
Russian | продажный (bribable, corrupt, purchasable, reptile, vendible). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | podmitljiv (bribable, corrupt, corrupted, corruptible, mercenary). (various references) | |
Spanish | venal. (various references) | |
Swedish | korrumperad (corrupt). (various references) | |
Turkish | yiyici (corrupt), rüşvet alan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | товарний (marketable, vendible), венозний (venous), продажний (accessible to bribery, babylonian, corrupt, hireling, procurable, purchasable, vendible). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dễ mua chuộc (corruptible), dễ hối lộ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | venalis. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | venalitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "venal": venalities, venality, venally. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "venal": juvenal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "venal": juvenals. (additional references) | |
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"Venal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enal, genal, ivenel, Kenal, vana, vanal, vanay, vanel, Vanwall, veah, vealy, vean, veanal, veba, veca, vedal, veena, veenal, vegal, veina, veja, venak, venala, venale, venalo, venals, venas, venda, venel, venez, venil, venile, venl, venle, venly, vennel, venow, venta, vental, venuw, veral, viena, vienal, vinal, Vinay, vinel, vinle, vinna, vinol, vonel, vynal, vynil, zenal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "venal" (pronounced vē"nul) |
| 4 | -ē" n u l | adrenal, penal, renal. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, anal, annal, annul, Arsenal, atonal, attitudinal, autumnal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, carnal, channel, coeducational, collisional, Colonel, communal, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, cornel, correctional, criminal, Darnel, delusional, denominational, departmental, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, diurnal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, empanel, erosional, eternal, exceptional, external, factional, faunal, fennel, fictional, final, flannel, fluxional, foundational, fractional, fraternal, functional, funnel, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, impersonal, improvisational, spinal, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, internal, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, journal, jurisdictional, juvenile, kennel, kernel, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, maternal, medicinal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nocturnal, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, panel, paternal, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, polyvinyl, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, semifinal, seminal, sensational, sentinel, shrapnel, signal, situational, tonal, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, tribunal, tunnel, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, vaginal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl, virginal, vocational. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: navel. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-v" | |
-1 letter: elan, lane, lave, lean, leva, nave, vale, vane, veal, vela, vena. | |
-2 letters: ale, ane, ave, lav, lea, lev, nae, van. | |
-3 letters: ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-v" | |
+1 letter: alevin, alvine, leaven, levant, navels, valine, veinal, venial, vernal, vineal. | |
+2 letters: alevins, anviled, avellan, enclave, enslave, evangel, flavine, flavone, javelin, juvenal, klavern, leavens, leaving, levants, naively, novella, ravelin, unravel, valance, valence, valency, valines, vealing, velamen, venally, ventail, ventral, venular, volante. | |
+3 letters: anvilled, avellane, aventail, bivalent, cleaving, conclave, covalent, cravenly, divalent, enclaves, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, enviable, enviably, evangels, evenfall, eventual, flavines, flavones, gaveling, heavenly, interval, inviable, javelina, javelins, juvenals, klaverns, lavender, leavened, leavings, levanted, levanter, natively, novalike, novellas, novercal, ovalness, overlain, overland, overplan, raveling, ravelins, relevant, revenual, sleaving, unhalved, univalve, unravels, unvalued, unviable, valanced, valances, valences, valencia, valerian, valeting, valiance, velamina, venality, vendable, venereal, venially, ventails, ventrals, vernacle, vernally, volplane. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Bibliography |
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