RESENTFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resentful mean? 

• RESENTFUL (adjective)
  The adjective RESENTFUL has 1 sense:

1. full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will

  Familiarity information: RESENTFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESENTFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will

Context example:

a sullen resentful attitude

Similar:

acrimonious; bitter (marked by strong resentment or cynicism)

rancorous (showing deep-seated resentment)

Antonym:

unresentful (not resentful)

 Context examples 

My temper would perhaps be called resentful.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Poor Meg had a restless night, and got up heavy-eyed, unhappy, half resentful toward her friends, and half ashamed of herself for not speaking out frankly and setting everything right.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He did not address himself to an uncandid judge or a resentful heart.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was stung by his words into realization of the puerility of her act, and yet she felt that he had magnified it unduly and was consequently resentful.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

While her heart was still bounding with joy and gratitude on William's behalf, she could not be severely resentful of anything that injured only herself; and after having twice drawn back her hand, and twice attempted in vain to turn away from him, she got up, and said only, with much agitation, Don't, Mr. Crawford, pray don't!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

These observations, and indeed the greater part of the observations made that evening, were interrupted by Mrs. Micawber's discovering that Master Micawber was sitting on his boots, or holding his head on with both arms as if he felt it loose, or accidentally kicking Traddles under the table, or shuffling his feet over one another, or producing them at distances from himself apparently outrageous to nature, or lying sideways with his hair among the wine-glasses, or developing his restlessness of limb in some other form incompatible with the general interests of society; and by Master Micawber's receiving those discoveries in a resentful spirit.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As for the gentleman himself, his feelings were chiefly expressed, not by embarrassment or dejection, or by trying to avoid her, but by stiffness of manner and resentful silence.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She could almost be angry herself at such angry incivility; but she checked the resentful sensation; she remembered her own ignorance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Then, sitting in Beth's little chair close beside him, Jo told her troubles, the resentful sorrow for her loss, the fruitless efforts that discouraged her, the want of faith that made life look so dark, and all the sad bewilderment which we call despair.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)