vengeful
/ˈvɛnʒ.fəl/
vengeful adjective: vindictive or wanting vengeance.
Adjective
vengeful (comparative more vengeful, superlative most vengeful)
- Vindictive or wanting vengeance.
- His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.
- 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.2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian
- Synonyms:
- avengeful, pluckcrow, revengeful, vengeable, vengesome, vindical, vindictive, wreakful
vengeful meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
vengeful in Tamil
- பழிவாங்கும் தன்மை கொண்டவர்
vengeful in Urdu
- بدلہ لینے والا, انتقامی, کینہ پرور, قصاصی
vengeful in Bengali
- প্রতিহিংসাপরায়ণ
vengeful in Malayalam
- wanting vengeance
- പ്രതികാരദാഹിയായ pratikāradāhiyāya
More languagesFewer languages
- vengeful in Kannada
- ಪ್ರತೀಕಾರತ್ಮಕವಾದ, ಬದ್ಧವೈರದ
- vengeful in Tagalog
- mapaghiganti
- vengeful in Arabic
- اِنْتِقامِيّ intiqāmiyy, ثَأْرِيّ ṯaʔriyy, حَاقِد ḥāqid
- vengeful in Thai
- อาฆาต aa-kâat, พยาบาท pá-yaa-bàat
Examples of vengeful in a sentence
- Lore documents reveal that she was backstabbed by her subordinate, who wanted to become king, and she feels vengeful about it.
- Although there is no evidence that Taylor's is a vengeful, smiteful god, either.
- No joint is safe from its vengeful inflammations.
Synonyms of vengeful
- pluckcrow
- vengesome
- vindictive
- avengeful
- revengeful
- vengeable
- vindical
- wreakful
Antonyms
Forms of vengeful
| comparative | more vengeful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most vengeful |
Origin of vengeful
From venge + -ful.
Words formed from vengeful
Questions about vengeful
- What does vengeful mean?
- Vengeful means vindictive or wanting vengeance.
- What is vengeful in Tamil?
- Vengeful in Tamil is பழிவாங்கும் தன்மை கொண்டவர். See Vengeful meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is vengeful?
- Vengeful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce vengeful?
- Vengeful is pronounced /ˈvɛnʒ.fəl/.
Words near vengeful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: vengeful (page history and authors); vengeful (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vengeful (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vengeful (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vengeful (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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