vengeful

Speech parts

1. vengeful - Adjective

2. vengeful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

vindictive revengeful avenger mad mean hostile bitter revenge angry threatening ballistic cruel malicious sinister malignant
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Antonyms

cool as cucumber good humane kind sympathetic charitable
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Examples

...those who say I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker. Christopher Hitchens

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. Phillips Brooks

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in Freedom's hallowed shade. John Quincy Adams

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! Walt Whitman

Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful. Arthur Keith

Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul. Brandon Sanderson

Close letter words and terms

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