vengeful
/ˈvɛn(d)ʒfʊl
/ /ˈvɛn(d)ʒf(ə)l/adjective
Seeking to harm someone in return for a perceived injury: a vengeful ex-con...
- Holly Hunter makes her British stage debut, playing a vengeful woman returning to rural Ireland.
- The plot line about the vengeful Temple merchants seeking Jesus' death has been removed.
- It is well known that vengeful ex-cons have hunted down the cops who busted them.
Synonyms
vindictive, revengeful, out for revenge, avenging, unforgiving, resentful, grudge-bearing, bitter, acrimonious
literary malefic, maleficent
Derivatives
vengefully
/ adverb ...- ‘You'll be all right,’ soothes Kim vengefully.
- In Cookie Jar, he's vengefully addressing an acquaintance whose ‘house is only made of cards’.
- Arca sneered dangerously at the poster, but it was Anani who murmured vengefully, ‘She bears the Chancellor's crop.’
vengefulness
- In fact, intolerance of others’ scepticism, along with vengefulness, is a typical trait of paranoia patients.
- A triumphant outcome for the USA from the Iraqi situation will be a disaster for the EU since it will inevitably be accompanied by vengefulness.
- Ethics have to be free of vengefulness and rashness.
Origin
Late 16th century: from obsolete venge 'avenge' (see vengeance), on the pattern of revengeful.