revengeful
2
5.8
- adjective
- /rɪˈvɛnʤfəl/
:
vengativo
- I felt angry, sad, frightened, and revengeful.
And This is why Chestaf says that they are the most revengeful of humankind.
- And This is why Chestaf says that they are the most revengeful of humankind.
Examples
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"They are a revengeful people," Singleton wrote of the Cherokees, "with no dependence upon their professions of friendship."
Academic text (2011) -
You remind me so much of another woman, also with a malicious, revengeful heart.
Blog text (8) -
I'm doing this because I'm angry and I'm revengeful and this is how I'm going to get even.
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I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
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Thus came medicine; and the plants, every one of which has its use if we only knew it, furnish the remedy to counteract the evil wrought by the revengeful animals.
Academic text (2011) -
Cruel and revengeful, they could school themselves to stand pain as a matter of social convention, although when unsustained by that they were childishly lacking in self-control.
Academic text (2014) -
A revengeful old man by the name of Shas ibn Qais one day walked with his friends and came across an assembly of the reconciled tribes held in the city square.
Academic text (2015) -
Being revengeful only leads to more conflict and unhappiness.
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His revengeful nature made it hard for him to let go of past grievances.
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The revengeful villain plotted to take down those who wronged him.
Synonyms
89
5.8
Wanting to hurt someone or damage their good name
46
7.9
Wanting strongly to hurt someone who hurt you
37
6.9
Wanting to harm someone because they hurt you
23
5.1
Wanting to hurt or upset someone on purpose
6
6.3
Showing strong hate and wanting to hurt someone
3
7.1
Wanting to punish someone for a wrong they did to you
Wanting to hurt or upset other people
Being cruel and speaking sharp words like a poisonous snake
Antonyms
How Vengeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word revengeful comes from revenge, which means 'to get even' or 'return a wrong', and the ending -ful means 'full of'. So, a revengeful person is 'full of a wish to get even'.