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^[1]:

     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)
• 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
• Turkish: intikamcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: мсти́вий (mstývyj)

Further reading

• “vengeful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “vengeful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “vengeful”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.