Vindictive

Definitions: Vindictive

Vindictive

Adjective

1. Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge; "more vindictive than jealous love"- Shakespeare; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature"- M.R.Cohen.

2. Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment".

Date "vindictive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Etymology: Vindictive \Vin*dic"tive\, adjective. [For vindicative, confused with Latin vindicta revenge, punishment, from vindicare to vindicate. Compare to Vindicative.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Vindictive

Synonyms: despiteful (adj), revengeful (adj), spiteful (adj), vengeful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Irascibility	Cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari_tre. in a bad temper; sulky; a; angry. resentful, resentive; vindictive.
Revenge	Keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.
	Adjective: revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless; a; ruthless, rigorous, avenging.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Vindictive

English words defined with "vindictive": despiteful ♦ revengeful, revengefully ♦ smart money, spiteful ♦ unvindictive ♦ vengeful, vengefully, Vindicative, vindictively. (references)

Specialty definitions using "vindictive": Cloten. (references)

Etymologies containing "vindictive": Vindicative. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Honey, you're being so spiteful and vindictive. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

In short, she is unprincipled, relentless, and exacting; idle, unproductive, and tedious; unimaginative, humorless, and vain; vindictive, undignified, and weak. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Bir�)

I may be cruel, vindictive, and sarcastic, but I do have a heart! (High Society; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Pat Dougherty)

That I had filled his head with romantic notions about a whale capable not only of profound grief, which I believed, but also of calculated and vindictive actions, which I found hard to be believe, despite all that had happened. (Orca; writing credit: Luciano Vincenzoni ; Sergio Donati)

You vindictive sack of silicone! (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling)

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Domain	Title
Books	Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent/Child Bond from a Vindictive Ex (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Past: Vindictive Sadisms of Petty Bureaucrats (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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"Vindictive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 93.43% of the time. "Vindictive" is used about 137 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	93.43%	128	28,261
Noun (proper)	6.57%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	137	N/A

Expression using "vindictive": vindictive damages. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "vindictive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndëshkimor (disciplinary, penal, penitentiary, punitive), hakmarrës (avengeful, avenger, Revenger, vengeful). (various references)

Arabic		‏محب للإنتقام, ‏قصاصي (punitive), ‏إنتقامي (vindicative). (various references)

Bulgarian		отмъстителен (avengeful, malevolent, revengeful, vengeful), наказателен (foul, penal, retributive, vindicatory). (various references)

Czech		trestající (punitive, vindicatory), pomstychtivý (avengeful, revengeful, vengeful), mstivý (revengeful, vengeful). (various references)

Dutch		vordering tot vergoeding van morele schade (action for vindictive damages, heart-balm action, smart money), smartegeld (action for vindictive damages, heart-balm action, lump-sum payment to widow, smart money, widower or orphans of deceased pensioner). (various references)

Finnish		kostonhimoinen (revengeful). (various references)

French		vindicatif (vindicatory). (various references)

German		rachsüchtig (avenging, revengeful, vengeful, vindictively). (various references)

Greek		φιλέκδικοσ (vengeful), εκδικητικόσ (revengeful, vengeful). (various references)

Hebrew		� וטר (guard, vengeful, watchman), � קמ� י (revengeful, vengeful). (various references)

Hungarian		bosszúszomjas (avengeful, meteoric, vengeful, vindicative). (various references)

Italian		vendicativo (revengeful, vengeful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		執念深い (persistent, spiteful, tenacious, vengeful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しゅうね�"ぶかい (persistent, spiteful, tenacious, vengeful). (various references)

Manx		roonagh (ill intentioned; runic, malicious, malignant, perverse, secret, stubborn, vicious), myskidagh (implacable, malevolent, malicious, rancorous, resentful, spiteful), goanlyssagh (malevolent, malicious, malignant, rancorous, revengeful, spiteful, spiteful person, vicious, vicious spiteful), elgyssagh (fierce, spiteful). (various references)

Pig Latin		indictivevay

Portuguese		vingativo (avengeful, rancorous, resentful, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful, vicious, wicked), vingador (avenger, retributive, Revenger), rancoroso (rancorous, resentful, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked), defensivo (defensive, vindicatory). (various references)

Romanian		vindicativ, rãzbunãtor (avengeful, avenger, malicious, retributive, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful), de pedeapsã. (various references)

Russian		мстительный (avengeful, revengeful, vengeful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osvetoljubiv (avengeful, revengeful, vengeful, vindicative), osvetnički (avenging, vengeful, vindicatory). (various references)

Spanish		vengativo (retaliatory, revengeful, vengeful). (various references)

Swedish		hämndlysten (revengeful, vengeful), hämndgirig (avengeful). (various references)

Turkish		kindar (grudging, malevolent, revengeful, spiteful), kinci (grudger, grudging, rancorous, resentful, retributive, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful), intikam güden, cezai. (various references)

Ukranian		каральний (punitive, retaliatory, retributive), мстивий (avengeful, rancorous, revengeful, vengeful). (various references)

Vietnamese		thù oán có tính chất trả thù, hay báo thù, báo thù. (various references)

Welsh		dialgar (revengeful, vengeful). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vindicta. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "vindictive": vindictively, vindictiveness, vindictivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Vindictive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vendictive, vimdictive, vindicitive. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "vindictive" (pronounced vi'ndi"ktiv)
6	-d i" k t i v	addictive, predictive.
5	-i" k t i v	restrictive.
4	-k t i v	active, adjective, affective, attractive, collective, conductive, connective, constructive, corrective, counterproductive, defective, destructive, detective, directive, distinctive, effective, elective, hyperactive, inactive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, irrespective, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perspective, photoconductive, proactive, productive, projective, prospective, protective, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, reflective, refractive, reproductive, respective, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, subjective, superconductive, unattractive, unproductive.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-n-t-v-v"
	-3 letters: identic, incited, invited.
	-4 letters: citied, divine, incite, indict, indite, invite, tineid.
	-5 letters: cited, civet, civie, edict, evict, indie, ivied, nitid, teiid, teind, tined, viced, vined, vinic, vivid.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-i-n-t-v-v"
	+1 letter: vindicative.
	+2 letters: vindictively.
	+4 letters: vindictiveness.
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