vengeful

venge·ful (v

adj.

1. Desiring vengeance; vindictive.

2. Indicating or proceeding from a desire for revenge.

3. Serving to exact vengeance.

vengeful·ly adv.

vengeful·ness n.

vengeful [ˈvɛndʒfʊl]

adj

1. desiring revenge; vindictive

2. characterized by or indicating a desire for revenge a vengeful glance

3. inflicting or taking revenge with vengeful blows

vengefully adv

vengefulness n

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Adj.

vengeful - disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge; "more vindictive than jealous love"- Shakespeare; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature"- M.R.Cohen

revengeful, vindictive

unforgiving - unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy; "a surly unforgiving old woman"

vengeful

adjective unforgiving, relentless, avenging, vindictive, punitive, implacable, spiteful, retaliatory, rancorous, thirsting for revenge, revengeful He was stabbed to death by his vengeful wife.

Translations

vengeful [ˈvendʒfʊl] ADJ → vengativo

vengeful [ˈvɛndʒfʊl] adj → vengeur/geresse

vengeful

adj → rachsüchtig

vengeful [ˈvɛndʒfʊl] adj (liter) → vendicativo/a

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Avengeful
bunny boiler
enmity
eye
malevolent
malicious
nose
revengeful
slave
Sophoclean
Sophocles
vindictive

Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost survives and hovers over it to scare.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

They hurried forward more fierce and vengeful than ever.

The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

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