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vengeful
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective vengeful has 1 sense
- vengeful(s = adj.all) revengeful, vindictive - disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge; "more vindictive than jealous love"; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature" Derived form noun vengefulness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
vengeful, adj. vindictive; seeking vengeance.
Derivative
vengefully adv. vengefulness n.
Etymology
obs. venge avenge (as VENGEANCE)
ROGET THESAURUS
vengeful
Revenge
N revenge, revengement, vengeance, avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation, day of reckoning, rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness, avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides, revengeful, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless, aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus, rankling, immitigable, manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum, dies irae dies illa, in high vengeance there is noble scorn, inhumanum verbum est ultio, malevolus animus abditos dentes habet, now infidel I have thee on the hip.
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