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revengeful

/ɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒfʊl/

revengeful adjective: vengeful, vindictive.

Adjective

revengeful (comparative more revengeful, superlative most revengeful)

  1. Vengeful, vindictive.
    • the baser mind it selfe displayes / In cancred malice and revengefull spight […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

revengeful meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Odia

revengeful in Tamil

பழிவாங்குதல், பழிவாங்கும் மனப்பான்மையார்ந்த

revengeful in Malayalam

revengeful
പ്രതികാരദാഹി pratikāradāhi

revengeful in Odia

revengeful; spiteful
ନଷ୍ଟ naṣṭa

Synonyms of revengeful

All synonyms of revengeful

Forms of revengeful

comparativemore revengeful
superlativemost revengeful

Origin of revengeful

From revenge + -ful.

Words formed from revengeful

Questions about revengeful

What does revengeful mean?
Revengeful means vengeful, vindictive.
What is revengeful in Tamil?
Revengeful in Tamil is பழிவாங்குதல், பழிவாங்கும் மனப்பான்மையார்ந்த. See Revengeful meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is revengeful?
Revengeful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce revengeful?
Revengeful is pronounced /ɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒfʊl/.

Words near revengeful in the dictionary

  1. revenge-quitting
  2. revengeable
  3. revengeance
  4. revengeances
  5. revenged
  6. revengeful
  7. revengefully
  8. revengefulness
  9. revengeless
  10. revengelessness
  11. revengement

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: revengeful (page history and authors); revengeful (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പ്രതികാരദാഹി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ନଷ୍ଟ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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