vengeful
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6.9
- adjective
- /ˈvɛnʤfəl/
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vengativo
- The guilty cannot hide any longer, nor escape the vengeful wrath of the cosmic order!
- feel vengeful
- a vengeful character
- vengeful gods
Do I even want to know the bitter, grumpy, vengeful person you've become it?
- Do I even want to know the bitter, grumpy, vengeful person you've become it?
- How could they cut sweet baby James, or should I say vengeful baby James?
- Next stop on the love train was Trump junior girlfriend and vengeful banshee who will haunt your dreams.
- To many, among friend and foe, the Sea Wolf had become larger than life, more vengeful spirit than man.
- And that's why I think that, you know, you look at the the Michael Jordan, Michael was vengeful, he was petty.
- And so he tells her, you know, oh, OK, you're just being androidic, vengeful, right, because I tripped you up on the Voigt camp scale.
Examples
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From that, you see what I could've done to you if I were a vengeful man.
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After the unjust treatment, he became a vengeful figure, seeking to right the wrongs done to him.
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I mean, we all are subject to to feeling, you know, vengeful at some point.
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No need to get carried away, showing me your vengeful side.
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I just wondered what my father would do, knowing how bitter he was and how vengeful he could be.
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Imagine believing in a god that is so vengeful, so full of uncontrolled anger.
Blog text (9) -
In Shakespeare, some characters are vengeful, sad, or suicidal as a result of their epiphanies.
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He's a vengeful spirit.
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We must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude.
Academic text (1997) -
Their behavior was so perpetually vain and vengeful that the mortals constantly, unknowingly provoked them to misuse their power.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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7.9
Wanting strongly to hurt someone who hurt you
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5.1
Wanting to hurt or upset someone on purpose
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7.1
Wanting to punish someone for a wrong they did to you
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5.8
Wanting to hurt someone who hurt you
Wanting to hurt or upset other people
Antonyms
How Vengeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
vengeful = vengeance (transparent) = venge + ful
The meaning 'full of vengeance' is a straightforward combination of the root (related to 'vengeance') and the productive suffix '-ful', so learners who know 'vengeance' or 'revenge' can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The word vengeful comes from old words for 'revenge' and is related to the English word revenge and the Latin root vindicare, which meant 'to claim' or 'to punish'. So, a vengeful person wants to 'get back' at someone for a wrong.