Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Desiring vengeance; vindictive.
- adj. Indicating or proceeding from a desire for revenge.
- adj. Serving to exact vengeance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Wiktionary
- adj. Vindictive or wanting vengeance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge
Etymologies
- From venge + -ful. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Early Christians like St. Paul embraced the Jewish Bible but rejected what they called the 'vengeful' G-d of the Old Testament.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Christian Love and the Obligation to Hate Evil
“Releasing prisoners who are not educated, not employable and vengeful is just asking for trouble.”
“So my characterisation of this act as vengeful is accurate.”
“my characterisation of this act as vengeful is accurate.”
“The character is described as the vengeful spirit of a fallen heroine.”
“A dear old friend has a steamer trunk full, namely a vengeful ex-wife, jokingly referred to as "She Who Shall Not Be Named".”
“This is some kind of vengeful ghost prototype the Japanese invented.”
“Every problem we have is met with demands for a kind of vengeful series of recriminations instead of a focus on what public policy should focus on – the institutional framework that allows/encourages people to behave in a certain way and that leads to disastrous results.”
“According to Dowd, a "vengeful" Bill Clinton was aggressively lobbying Paterson to keep Kennedy out of the Senate.”
“Or are you too busy reveling in some kind of vengeful fit?”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘vengeful’.
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the brothers
factotem, extrapolation, antinomy, antenome, pusillanimous, capons, caftan, pejorative, cropper, cowl, perfidious, fichu and 138 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
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amsstory's list
pretentious, delectable, egomaniacal, lionize, titillate, nebulous, obfuscation, ostentatious, wry, precipice, ethereal, echo and 150 more...
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"Words, words, words."
abase, abject, abstruse, adjutant, altercation, altruistic, angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more...
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Words From Medea
For students in Ms. Hand's Ancient Literature class.
solitude, refugee, misfortune, vengeful, treachery, idleness, exile, incite, self-regard, wrath, despair, implacable and 2 more...
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Words Against Bush (and/or his admini...
These are words that have been used, might have been used, or could be used in association with the current president and/or his administration. They are only listed as a device to remind the read...
cowboy, naive, ignorant, vengeful, vindictive, grudge, petulant, angry, bully, immature, inexperienced, afraid and 85 more...
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adjectives
veritable, pejorative, pertinent, benign, gullible, specious, delinquent, evocative, delirious, snippy, pithy, lenient and 69 more...
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dodonoodles's Words
provision, royal society, charcoal, shaft, impellant, colliery, valve, physicist, smelter, piston, conduit, trough and 80 more...
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