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revengeful

English

Etymology

From revenge +? -ful.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???v?nd?f?l/

Adjective

revengeful (comparative more revengeful, superlative most revengeful)

  1. Vengeful, vindictive. [from 16th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vengeful
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
      the baser mind it selfe displayes / In cancred malice and revengefull spight […].

Derived terms

  • revengefully
  • revengefulness

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vindictive

English

Etymology

From Latin vindicta (“vengeance”), from vindico (“claim, vindicate”), from vindex (“defender”), +? -ive.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /v?n?d?k.t?v/
  • Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

vindictive (comparative more vindictive, superlative most vindictive)

  1. Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
  2. (obsolete) punitive

Synonyms

  • vengeful, revengeful, nasty
  • See also Thesaurus:vengeful

Derived terms

  • vindictively
  • vindictiveness

Related terms

  • vindicate
  • vindication
  • vindicator

Translations

Further reading

  • vindictive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • vindictive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • vindictive at OneLook Dictionary Search

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