revengefully
6.9
Doing something to hurt someone who hurt you
- adverb
- /rɪˈvɛnʤfəlɪ/
:
vengativamente
- The villain acted revengefully, seeking to harm anyone associated with his enemies.
Examples
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She plotted revengefully, determined to get back at those who wronged her.
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Simultaneously, we will cease to revengefully rewrite the past.
Academic text (1995) -
He spoke revengefully about his former friend who betrayed him.
Synonyms
vindictively
vsrevengefully
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8.1
In a way that tries to hurt someone because you want revenge
is a desire to retaliate that need not involve spite
vengefully
vsrevengefully
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6.8
In a way that shows a strong wish to punish someone for something they did
is a wish to retaliate for a wrong without extra intensity
Antonyms
How Vengeful
Surface Forms
revengefully positive
Morphology
revengefully = revengeful (transparent) = revenge + ful + ly
Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'revengeful'; the relation is straightforward.
Etymology
The word revengefully comes from revenge, where re- means 'back' and the idea is the same as in avenge and vengeance: to 'pay back' a wrong. So to act revengefully is to behave in a way that tries to get 'even' or hurt someone in return.