resentful
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5.4
- adjective
- /rɪˈzɛntfəl/
:
resentido
- After years of being overlooked for promotions, she became increasingly resentful of her coworkers' successes.
- feel resentful
- deeply resentful
- become resentful
So she was mad, she was resentful, she was angry with God, right?
- So she was mad, she was resentful, she was angry with God, right?
- They don't have to become resentful about that, right?
- Talk to him instead of being resentful and acting out.
- That's why much of the press is is resentful and angry about it.
- So what might happen is your home with a very sullen, resentful, grumpy, irritable partner.
- Marxists are resentful and spiteful and nasty.
- It's very, very easy to start to get resentful and to then pull back.
- And that makes us feel resentful, bitter.
- If you're lost and faithless and then you get whiny and resentful, it's just going to make it worse.
- I would have been bitter and and resentful.
- So if I feel resentful, but I act kind, I'm going to feel more kindly.
- He said if you're constantly sacrificing to the other, you'll grow resentful.
- He didn't have to set about destroying his family because he felt resentful.
Examples
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Paul came with him, still resentful and ready to interfere, but Stephen ignored him.
Fiction book (1990) -
Whenever I feel resentful of this situation, I simply remind myself of this principle.
Academic text (2005) -
Talk to him instead of being resentful and acting out.
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It's very, very easy to start to get resentful and to then pull back.
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A male student said, "I am very resentful of my elementary school treatment."
Academic text (2004) -
When we got together again, she seemed bitter and resentful from the second she walked in.
Fiction book (2000) -
As we surpassed her in size, she seemed resentful, perhaps for not giving her credit.
Fiction book (1994) -
Parents get angry, kids get resentful, and it just isn't worth it.
Fiction book (1993) -
I was afraid of growing old, bitter, and resentful, feeling professionally unfulfilled.
Academic text (2010) -
Privately, the Turkish government was resentful of ISIS, which until recently had not been viewed as a security threat.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
360
2.5
Feeling or showing strong anger and hurt
68
6.5
Unhappy and annoyed because you feel unfairly treated or disappointed
27
4.1
Feeling very angry and shocked because something seems unfair
24
6.0
Feeling angry because you are treated unfairly
14
7.2
Feeling upset, angry, or hurt because someone treats you unfairly
7
5.4
Feeling very angry and hurt because someone treated you unfairly
4
8.4
Having long lasting strong anger toward someone
3
2.3
Feeling hurt because someone said or did something rude
Quick to feel offended and show anger
Antonyms
How Resentful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Resentful comes from the Latin root sentire meaning 'to feel' with the prefix re- meaning 'again', and you can see the same root in the English word sense. So to be resentful is to hold a bitter feeling 'again' about something unfair.