revengeful

[ ri-venj-fuhl ]

adjective

1. determined to have revenge; vindictive.

   Synonyms: malignant, malicious, malevolent

   Antonyms: forgiving

revengeful

/ rɪˈvɛndʒfʊl /

adjective

1. full of or characterized by desire for vengeance; vindictive

Derived Forms

• reˈvengefully, adverb
• reˈvengefulness, noun

Other Words From

• re·vengeful·ly adverb
• re·vengeful·ness noun
• unre·vengeful adjective
• unre·vengeful·ly adverb
• unre·vengeful·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of revengeful¹

First recorded in 1580–90; revenge + -ful

Synonym Study

See spiteful.

Example Sentences

Hence, the escalating pace of his violent and revengeful rhetoric against his enemies, real or imagined, including most importantly those prosecutors and judges who are doing everything within their power not to weaponize the wheels of justice against him.

From Salon

Lastly, the ineffectiveness of Trump's bombastic and revengeful rhetoric has been repeatedly demonstrated with each new indictment where his stormtroopers are no longer answering his calls for violence nor for that matter are they anywhere to be seen.

From Salon

"The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian. Turn three hundred low families of New York into New Jersey, support them for fifty years in vicious idleness, and you will have some idea of what the Indians are. Reckless, revengeful, fiendishly cruel, they rob and murder, not the cowboys, who can take care of themselves, but the defenseless, lone settlers on the plains."

From Salon

She would later say in a court filing that this argument was the source of his “revengeful false reporting.”

From New York Times

Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful.

From Literature