omnivorously
- adverb
- /ɑmˈnɪvərəsli/
- The community garden welcomed volunteers omnivorously, encouraging them to learn from different gardening techniques.
- read omnivorously
Examples
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To be sure, it is possible that Sauer missed Shaler's Kentucky reports while omnivorously reading others and that Semple did not mention Marsh in her anthropogeography course at the time Sauer took it; and in a book like Influences, which cites about a thousand authors, missing one would be easy.
Academic text (2012) -
She reads omnivorously, enjoying everything from science fiction to biographies.
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As an artist, he approached his work omnivorously, drawing inspiration from various cultures and styles.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
omnivorously = omnivorous (semi-transparent) = omni + vor + ous + ly
Adverb formed from the adjective 'omnivorous' with the productive suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
Omnivorously comes from omni- meaning 'all' and vorare meaning 'to devour', like in omnivore. So to do something omnivorously is to take in 'everything' — for example reading many kinds of books or enjoying all types of music without choosing.