Revengeful
[rɪ'ven(d)ʒfʊl;-f(ə)l]
Definition
(adj.) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge; 'more vindictive than jealous love'- Shakespeare; 'punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature'- M.R.Cohen .
Editor: Tamara--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge.
Checker: Norris
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Vindictive, malicious, malignant, spiteful, resentful, unforgiving, implacable, vengeful, rancorous, malevolent.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vindictive, unforgiving, uncompassionate, spiteful, resentful
ANT:Unvindictive, forgiving, compassionate, unresentful, generous, chivalrous
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Examples
- The narrative called up the most revengeful passions of the time, and there was not a head in the nation but must have dropped before it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- How can you--how dare you have such wicked, revengeful thoughts? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Pride goes before a fall, and the revengeful Snow turned the tables with disastrous success. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Yet I was sure that, with his revengeful nature, he would never give it to me of his own free-will. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- As the minutes passed he had gradually drifted into a revengeful intention without knowing the precise moment of forming it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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