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revengeful
[ri-venj-fuhl]
revengeful
/ ɪˈɛԻʊ /
adjective
full of or characterized by desire for vengeance; vindictive
Other Word Forms
- revengefully adverb
- revengefulness noun
- unrevengeful adjective
- unrevengefully adverb
- unrevengefulness noun
- ˈԲڳܱ adverb
- ˈԲڳܱԱ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of revengeful1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
She would later say in a court filing that this argument was the source of his “revengeful false reporting.”
Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to his sister, said of the revengeful violence, “Personally, I think it a rather good thing.”
In many another story, too, she is fierce and revengeful.
One colonial historian wrote that the Coromantee were “hardy, laborious, and manageable under mild and just treatment,” but warned that they were “fierce, violent, and revengeful under injury and provocation.”
In her diary, Morgan called him “unduly revengeful,” and the superintendent of Hearst’s ranch said that Rossi “seemed to glory in human misery.”
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When To Use
Revengeful is used to describe someone who is determined to get revenge—retaliation against or punishment of someone for some kind of harm that they caused or wrongdoing that they did (whether real or perceived).Revengeful also means inclined to seek revenge. The adjective vindictive is a close synonym. A more commonly used synonym is vengeful.Revengeful can be used to describe people or their actions.Revenge often involves an attempt to get even by inflicting similar harm to the person who initially harmed the person seeking revenge. Revenge has several other synonyms that each have different shades of meaning, including retribution, retaliation, and reprisal. But more than these words, revenge implies that such retaliation is personal and motivated by a deep anger and perhaps an obsessive desire to get even. This is usually what it means when someone is described as revengeful.Example: Being revengeful does more damage to you than to the person you are intent on destroying.
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