REVENGEFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revengeful mean? 

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

1. disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVENGEFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

Synonyms:

revengeful; vengeful; vindictive

Context example:

punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature

Similar:

unforgiving (unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy)

 Context examples 

Yet I was sure that, with his revengeful nature, he would never give it to me of his own free-will.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

George, I reckon you'll have to wait another turn, friend; and lucky for you as I'm not a revengeful man.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Pride goes before a fall, and the revengeful Snow turned the tables with disastrous success.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition; for they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The master of this shop was sitting at the door in his shirt-sleeves, smoking; and as there were a great many coats and pairs of trousers dangling from the low ceiling, and only two feeble candles burning inside to show what they were, I fancied that he looked like a man of a revengeful disposition, who had hung all his enemies, and was enjoying himself.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was the stile before me—the very fields through which I had hurried, blind, deaf, distracted with a revengeful fury tracking and scourging me, on the morning I fled from Thornfield: ere I well knew what course I had resolved to take, I was in the midst of them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When a most amiable person, with a highly polished bald head, asked me across the dinner table, if that were the first occasion of my seeing the grounds, I could have done anything to him that was savage and revengeful.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His creditors were not implacable; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that even the revengeful boot-maker had declared in open court that he bore him no malice, but that when money was owing to him he liked to be paid.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had never doubted his meanness, his craft and malice; but I fully comprehended now, for the first time, what a base, unrelenting, and revengeful spirit, must have been engendered by this early, and this long, suppression.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)