[1645–55; vegetable + -ly]This word is first recorded in the period 1645–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cruise, herringbone, sponsor, swab, vortex-ly is a suffix forming adverbs from adjectives. Other words that use the affix -ly include: deeply, elliptically, residually
Examples of 'vegetably' in a sentence
vegetably
Vegetably, sweet and synthetic, this is genuinely upsetting.