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vengeable

vengeable adjective: vengeful.

Adjective

vengeable (comparative more vengeable, superlative most vengeable)

  1. (obsolete) Vengeful.
  2. (obsolete) Prompted by or characterised by revenge; severe, cruel.
    • I sought / Vpon my selfe that vengeable despight / To punish1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    brutal, heartless

Synonyms of vengeable

All synonyms of vengeable

Forms of vengeable

comparativemore vengeable
superlativemost vengeable

Origin of vengeable

From Anglo-Norman vengeable.

Words formed from vengeable

Questions about vengeable

What does vengeable mean?
Vengeable means vengeful.
What part of speech is vengeable?
Vengeable is an adjective.

Words near vengeable in the dictionary

  1. Venezuelanness
  2. Venezuelans
  3. venflon
  4. venflons
  5. venge
  6. vengeable
  7. vengeably
  8. vengeance
  9. vengeances
  10. vengeant
  11. vengeaunce

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