📖 Definitions of "Vengeful"
adjective
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Vindictive or wanting vengeance.
"His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors."
🔄 Synonyms of "Vengeful"
3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| vindictive | Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful. |
| unforgiving | Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy. |
| revengeful | Vengeful, vindictive. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Vengeful"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| revengeful | Vengeful, vindictive. |
| vindictive | Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful. |
| unforgiving | Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy. |
| reprisalnoun | An act of retaliation. |
| retaliatory | Relating to or part of a retaliation. |
| tit-for-tat | Having the characteristic of returning bad for bad. |
| resentful | Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment. |
| vindicative | Vindictive, excessively vengeful. |
| ravening | Voracious and greedy. |
| inveterate | (of a person) Having had a habit (usually a bad habit) for a long time. |
| rapacious | (also figurative) Voracious; avaricious. |
| covetous | Distastefully keen or desirous, especially for something belonging to someone else; avaricious. |
| bloodthirsty | Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous. |
| rancorous | Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving. |
| jealous | Envious; feeling resentful or angered toward someone for a perceived advantage or success, material or otherwise. |
| vituperatory | Vituperative. |
| incessive | Continual or successive; unceasing. |
| blood-thirsty | Alternative form of bloodthirsty. [Thirsty for blood: inexorably violent or eager for bloodshed; murderous.] |
| wrathful | Possessed of great wrath; very angry. |
| bloody-minded | (chiefly UK, informal) Obstinate; stubborn. |
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