vengeful

English

Etymology

From venge +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnʒ.fəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

vengeful (comparative more vengeful, superlative most vengeful)

1. Vindictive or wanting vengeance.

   His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.

   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:

     A vengeful mother-of-three has been jailed for 168 days after being convicted of killing a neighbour's kitten by microwaving the 10-week-old pet.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:vengeful

Hyponyms

• revanchist

Derived terms

• vengefully
• vengefulness

Related terms

• avenge
• vengeance

Translations

wanting vengeance

Asturian: vengativu Belarusian: по́мслівы (pómslivy), мсці́вы (mscívy) Bulgarian: отмъсти́телен (bg) (otmǎstítelen) Catalan: venjatiu Czech: mstivý (cs), pomstychtivý (cs) Danish: hævngerrig (da) Dutch: wraakzuchtig (nl) Finnish: kostonhaluinen (fi), kostonhimoinen French: vindicatif (fr), revanchiste (fr) Galician: vingativo (gl) Georgian: შურისმაძიებელი (šurismaʒiebeli), შურისმგებელი (šurismgebeli) German: rachsüchtig (de) Hungarian: bosszúálló (hu) Italian: vendicativo (it) Kashubian: mscëwi Macedonian: одмазднички (odmazdnički), осветлив (osvetliv) Malayalam: പ്രതികാരദാഹിയായ (pratikāradāhiyāya) Maori: kaikiko, whakakaitoa Norwegian: Bokmål: hevngjerrig (no) Nynorsk: hemngjerrig Plautdietsch: racheewent Polish: mściwy (pl) Portuguese: vingativo (pt) Russian: мсти́тельный (ru) (mstítelʹnyj) Scottish Gaelic: dìoghaltach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: осветољу̀бив Roman: osvetoljùbiv (sh) Slovak: pomstivý, pomstychtivý Slovene: maščevalen Spanish: vengativo Swedish: hämndlysten (sv) Tagalog: mapaghiganti Thai: อาฆาต (th) (aa-kâat), พยาบาท (th) (pá-yaa-bàat) Turkish: intikamcı (tr) Ukrainian: мсти́вий (mstývyj)

Further reading

• “vengeful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vengeful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “vengeful”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.