Vengeful
adjective
Desiring revenge against someone or something.
He was vengeful after his friend betrayed him.
Often appears as...
- vengeful spirit
- vengeful anger
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Desiring revenge against someone or something.
He was vengeful after his friend betrayed him.
Often appears as...
- vengeful spirit
- vengeful anger
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Vengeful has a negative tone, indicating dark or harmful intentions.
The vengeful villain plotted his retaliation against the hero.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intensity
Vengeful often describes deep, intense emotions leading to extreme actions.
Her vengeful outburst terrified everyone around her.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal vs Figurative
Vengeful can be used both literally for actual revenge and figuratively for a grudge.
He held a vengeful grudge, never planning to truly act on it.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Vengeful has a negative tone, indicating dark or harmful intentions.
The vengeful villain plotted his retaliation against the hero.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intensity
Vengeful often describes deep, intense emotions leading to extreme actions.
Her vengeful outburst terrified everyone around her.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal vs Figurative
Vengeful can be used both literally for actual revenge and figuratively for a grudge.
He held a vengeful grudge, never planning to truly act on it.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Vengeful has a negative tone, indicating dark or harmful intentions.
The vengeful villain plotted his retaliation against the hero.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Intensity
Vengeful often describes deep, intense emotions leading to extreme actions.
Her vengeful outburst terrified everyone around her.
Pro Tip 3/3Literal vs Figurative
Vengeful can be used both literally for actual revenge and figuratively for a grudge.
He held a vengeful grudge, never planning to truly act on it.
Compare with
antagonisticmalevolentresentfulretaliatoryrevengespitefulunforgivingvindictive
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Video examples
Will Wright: Spore,...
They might be a nurturing god. They might be bootstrapping life on planets, trying to terraform and spread civilization. You might be a vengeful god, conquesting, because you actually can do that, you can attack other intelligent races. You might be a networking god, building alliances, or just curious, going around and wanting to explore as much as you possibly can.
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Where Our Fear of Sharks...
And while they are powerful creatures, our stories have given them the reputation of being vengeful killers. Hollywood says so. - You're gonna need a bigger boat. - So does the media. - A life or death struggle with one of the ocean's most dangerous predators.
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Why should you read...
This is no ordinary storm, but a violent and vengeful tempest, and it sets the stage for Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play. As the skies clear, we are invited into a world that seems far removed from our own, but is rife with familiar concerns
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Coya Paz Brownrigg: The...
ghosts are portrayed as mean, vengeful, destructive forces. They’re terrifying at worst and unsettling at best. Unexpected presences who show up and demand your emotional attention, at any cost. We are taught to be afraid of dying and death,
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The Terra-Cotta Warriors...
and was quite paranoid about revolution he may have thought these threats would follow him into the afterlife the army faces east toward States Qin conquered during his lifetime as if he anticipated vengeful troops coming over the horizon
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Embracing otherness,...
I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment. And I've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery
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The refugee crisis is a...
The sound is of walls being built, vengeful political rhetoric, humanitarian values and principles on fire in the very countries that 70 years ago said never again
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Destined to Grow Apart...
thin-skinned ravaged by the vengeful Sun my craggy grimy surface yields no fertile bouncy yay I am now ill-fated and hard lot yet there was a time when
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A letter to all who have...
As parents, as neighbors, as citizens, we witness and sometimes ignore each other into being. You were not born vengeful.
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What’s a squillo, and...
Gripped with vengeful passion, The Queen of the Night tears across the stage. She begins to sing her titular aria,
Video examples
Will Wright: Spore,...
They might be a nurturing god. They might be bootstrapping life on planets, trying to terraform and spread civilization. You might be a vengeful god, conquesting, because you actually can do that, you can attack other intelligent races. You might be a networking god, building alliances, or just curious, going around and wanting to explore as much as you possibly can.
Video examples
Where Our Fear of Sharks...
And while they are powerful creatures, our stories have given them the reputation of being vengeful killers. Hollywood says so. - You're gonna need a bigger boat. - So does the media. - A life or death struggle with one of the ocean's most dangerous predators.
Video examples
Why should you read...
This is no ordinary storm, but a violent and vengeful tempest, and it sets the stage for Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play. As the skies clear, we are invited into a world that seems far removed from our own, but is rife with familiar concerns
Video examples
Coya Paz Brownrigg: The...
ghosts are portrayed as mean, vengeful, destructive forces. They’re terrifying at worst and unsettling at best. Unexpected presences who show up and demand your emotional attention, at any cost. We are taught to be afraid of dying and death,
Video examples
The Terra-Cotta Warriors...
and was quite paranoid about revolution he may have thought these threats would follow him into the afterlife the army faces east toward States Qin conquered during his lifetime as if he anticipated vengeful troops coming over the horizon
Video examples
Embracing otherness,...
I inhabit another self, and I give it life for awhile, because when the self is suspended so is divisiveness and judgment. And I've played everything from a vengeful ghost in the time of slavery
Video examples
The refugee crisis is a...
The sound is of walls being built, vengeful political rhetoric, humanitarian values and principles on fire in the very countries that 70 years ago said never again
Video examples
Destined to Grow Apart...
thin-skinned ravaged by the vengeful Sun my craggy grimy surface yields no fertile bouncy yay I am now ill-fated and hard lot yet there was a time when
Video examples
A letter to all who have...
As parents, as neighbors, as citizens, we witness and sometimes ignore each other into being. You were not born vengeful.
Video examples
What’s a squillo, and...
Gripped with vengeful passion, The Queen of the Night tears across the stage. She begins to sing her titular aria,
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Quote examples
Donella Meadows
American Environmentalist
Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.
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David Steward
American Businessman
As an African-American, I think the way I treated others affected how people treated me. If people do attack you in certain ways, you can focus on it and be vengeful in your approach or take the high road - get over it.
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Alan Furst
American Author
If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.
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Gin Wigmore
New Zealander Musician
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.
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Mandy Patinkin
American Actor
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
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AJ Tracey
British Musician
I'm a very vengeful person - if someone didn't wanna get on board with me and I'm doing it well I'm gonna rub it in their face.
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Ciara
American Musician
I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.
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Phillips Brooks
American Clergyman
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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JaVale McGee
American Athlete
I'm not really a vengeful person.
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Donella Meadows
American Environmentalist
Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide.
Quote examples
David Steward
American Businessman
As an African-American, I think the way I treated others affected how people treated me. If people do attack you in certain ways, you can focus on it and be vengeful in your approach or take the high road - get over it.
Quote examples
Alan Furst
American Author
If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.
Quote examples
Gin Wigmore
New Zealander Musician
Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.
Quote examples
Mandy Patinkin
American Actor
We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
Quote examples
Friedrich Nietzsche
German Philosopher
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Quote examples
AJ Tracey
British Musician
I'm a very vengeful person - if someone didn't wanna get on board with me and I'm doing it well I'm gonna rub it in their face.
Quote examples
Ciara
American Musician
I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.
Quote examples
Phillips Brooks
American Clergyman
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
Quote examples
JaVale McGee
American Athlete
I'm not really a vengeful person.
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