revengeful

  • 21Revengefully — Revengeful Re*venge ful, a. Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. [1913 Webster] If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. [1913 Webster] May my hands . . . Never brandish more revengeful steel.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 22Revengefulness — Revengeful Re*venge ful, a. Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. [1913 Webster] If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. [1913 Webster] May my hands . . . Never brandish more revengeful steel.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 23vindictive — vindictive, revengeful, vengeful are close synonyms often used interchangeably to mean showing or motivated by a desire for vengeance. Distinctively vindictive tends to stress this reaction as inherent in the nature of the individual and,… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 24vindictive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. vengeful, spiteful, bitter; resentful; implacable, rancorous; bearing a grudge. See retaliation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. revengeful, retaliatory, unforgiving, implacable, vengeful, unrelenting,… …

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  • 25spiteful — spitefully, adv. spitefulness, n. /spuyt feuhl/, adj. full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child. [1400 50; late ME; see SPITE, FUL] Syn. vengeful, mean, cruel, rancorous. SPITEFUL, REVENGEFUL,… …

    Universalium

  • 26Assyria — • Includes geographical and historical information Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Assyria     Assyria     † …

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  • 27vengeful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. vindictive, rancorous (see retaliation). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. spiteful, revengeful, rancorous; see vindictive 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. vindictive, seeking revenge, revengeful,… …

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  • 28τιμωρητικά — τῑμωρητικά , τιμωρητικός revengeful neut nom/voc/acc pl τῑμωρητικά̱ , τιμωρητικός revengeful fem nom/voc/acc dual τῑμωρητικά̱ , τιμωρητικός revengeful fem nom/voc sg (doric aeolic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 29τιμωρητικώτερον — τῑμωρητικώτερον , τιμωρητικός revengeful adverbial comp τῑμωρητικώτερον , τιμωρητικός revengeful masc acc comp sg τῑμωρητικώτερον , τιμωρητικός revengeful neut nom/voc/acc comp sg …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 30vindictive — [vin dik′tiv] adj. [< L vindicta, revenge, vindication < vindicatus (see VINDICATE) + IVE] 1. revengeful in spirit; inclined to seek vengeance 2. said or done in revenge; characterized by vengeance [vindictive punishment] vindictively adv.… …

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