English Dictionary |
VINDICTIVENESS
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
IPA (US): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does vindictiveness mean?
• VINDICTIVENESS (noun)
The noun VINDICTIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. a malevolent desire for revenge
Familiarity information: VINDICTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A malevolent desire for revenge
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
vengefulness; vindictiveness
Hypernyms ("vindictiveness" is a kind of...):
malevolence; malignity (wishing evil to others)
Derivation:
vindictive (showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite)
vindictive (disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge)
Context examples
“Have you ever earned a dollar by your own labour?” he demanded, certain of her answer, a triumphant vindictiveness in his voice.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He was a dashing, jovial old soldier in his usual mood, but there were occasions on which he seemed to show himself capable of considerable violence and vindictiveness.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Not that St. John harboured a spirit of unchristian vindictiveness—not that he would have injured a hair of my head, if it had been fully in his power to do so.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"A handful of love is better than an oven full of bread" (Breton proverb)
"You reap what you sow." (Arabic proverb)
"The morning rainbow reaches the fountains; the evening rainbow fills the sails." (Corsican proverb)