Resentful

Definition: Resentful

Resentful

Adjective

1. Full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will; "resentful at the way he was treated"; "a sullen resentful attitude".

Date "resentful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Resentful

Synonym: revengeful. (additional references)

Antonym: unresentful (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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Resentful

English words defined with "resentful": acerbate ♦ bitterly ♦ eat into, embitter, envenom ♦ fret ♦ grate ♦ irascibility ♦ moroseness ♦ peeve ♦ quick temper ♦ rankle, resentfully, Resentive ♦ short temper, sourness, spleen, sulkiness, sullenness ♦ unresentful ♦ with bitterness. (references)

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	Resentful face I see (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)
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Author	Quotation
Buddha	'He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' -- those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	He held his hammer suspended in the air, about to drive a set nail, and he looked over the truck side at Tom, looked resentful at being interrupted.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Art Linkletter	I wondered, but at first I was resentful for being dropped. And by the time I got old enough to understand problems of unmarried young people, they were gone and I never knew who they were or where they went.
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"Resentful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Resentful" is used about 262 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)	100%	262	18,239

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "resentful": half-resentful.
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Language		Translations for "resentful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i prekur (affected, aghast, hurt, moved, sore, stricken, touchable, touched), i nxehur (candent, ireful, shirty, surly, vexed), i mëritur (despiteful, rancorous). (various references)

Arabic		‏ممتعض, ‏محتنق, ‏سريع الامتعاض, ‏إمتعاضي. (various references)

Bulgarian		сърдит (angry, cross, gruff, high, huffish, huffy, irate, ireful, peevish, ratty, red-necked, rusty, snappish, sour, stroppy, sullen), възмутен (disgusted, indignant), обидчив (hoity toity, huffish, miffy, pettish, prickly, sensitive, spiky, squeamish, susceptible, techy, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy, umbrageous), обиден (abusive, aggrieved, huffy, injured, injurious, insulted, invasive, invidious, offensive, opprobrious, pained), засегнат (affected, concerned, pained, wounded), злопаметен (rancorous, sulky, unforgiving). (various references)

Chinese		愤懑, 不滿 (discontented, dissatisfied), 不平 (grievance, indignant, injustice, unfairness, wrong). (various references)

Czech		rozzlobený (angry, cross, irate, pissed), rozmrzelý (disgruntled, peevish, upset, vexed), zatrpklý (acidulated, acrimonious, bitter, embittered, jaundiced, sardonic, sour), podráždìný (edgy, fretful, fussy, grumpy, peevish, uptight, waspish). (various references)

Farsi		بی میل (Disinclined, Reluctant, Squeamish, Unwilling). (various references)

French		rancuneux, plein ressentiment, irrité, froissé, amer. (various references)

German		nachtragend (unforgiving). (various references)

Greek		μνησίκακοσ (rancorous). (various references)

Hebrew		מתרעם (indignant). (various references)

Hungarian		bosszús (angry, annoyed, fretful, harassed, pettish, to be choked), sértődött (huffy, peeved, piqued, sullen), neheztelő, haragtartó (rancorous, vindictive). (various references)

Indonesian		sebal, keki (annoyed, ill at ease, irritated), dongkol (acrimonious, irked, vexed), anyal (annoyed, pervish). (various references)

Italian		risentito. (various references)

Manx		myskidagh (implacable, malevolent, malicious, rancorous, spiteful, vindictive). (various references)

Pig Latin		esentfulray

Portuguese		ressentido (a chip on one's shoulder), rancoroso (rancorous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, vindictive, wicked), vingativo (avengeful, rancorous, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, wicked), ofendido (aggrieved, huffy, injured, shirty), melindrado, irritado (angry, huffish, huffy, peeved, pettish, roily, snappish, snappy, snotty, sore, techy, testy, tetchy, waxy), cheio de ressentimento. (various references)

Romanian		revoltat (indignant, rebellious, shocked), ofensat de, iritat (edgy, irate, magged, Moody, peeved, peevish, peevishly, rasping), indignat (indignant, shake off the dust of one's feet). (various references)

Russian		обиженный (in high dudgeon, injured, pained). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uvredljiv (abusive, hoity toity, insulting, invidious, offending, umbrageous, uncomplimentary), ozlojeđen. (various references)

Spanish		resentido (good, hipped, jaundiced, sorehead, sulky, sullen). (various references)

Swedish		förnärmad, förbittrad (bitter, exasperated, hard-fought). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งไม่พอใจ. (various references)

Turkish		kinci (grudger, grudging, rancorous, retributive, revengeful, spiteful, vengeful, vindictive), küskün (offended, repining), içerlemiş (huffish, huffy, indignant), gücenmiş (huffish, hurt, in a tiff, offended), dargın (angry with, cross, displeased, huffish, huffy, injured, offended, stuffy, vexed, wroth), alınmış, çabuk kızan (irritable, peckish, spunky, techy). (various references)

Ukranian		обурений (indignant, shocked), образливий (abusive, affronting, affrontive, contumelious, humiliating, injurious, insulting, mortifying, obloquious, obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, ornery, outrageous, pettish, slanderous, touchy, umbrageous), ображений (aggrieved, humiliated, injured, pained, snuffy, sore). (various references)

Vietnamese		phẫn uất, oán giận phật ý, bực bội (fretful, uneasily, uneasy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "resentful": resentfully, resentfulness, resentfulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Resentful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recentful, resenful, ressentful, retentum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "resentful" (pronounced ruze"ntful)
6	-e" n t f u l	eventful, uneventful.
4	-t f u l	artful, boastful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doubtful, fateful, fistful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, insightful, lustful, mistrustful, neglectful, regretful, respectful, restful, rightful, spiteful, tactful, tasteful, thoughtful, ungrateful, wasteful, wistful, zestful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-n-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: refluent, sneerful.
	-2 letters: eluents, ferules, flenser, fluster, fluters, fresnel, fuelers, nestler, neuters, reflets, refuels, refutes, relents, restful, retunes, runlets, teenful, telfers, tenures, tureens, unfrees, unreels, unsteel.
	-3 letters: eluent, elutes, enserf, ensure, enters, enures, ferule, fester, fleers, fleets, flense, fluent, fluter, flutes, freest, fueler, funest, lefter, lunets, luster, lustre, nester, nestle, neuter, refels, refelt.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-n-r-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: fluorescent, fretfulness, interfluves, resentfully, restfulness, tearfulness.
	+3 letters: artfulnesses, fluorescents, gratefulness.
	+4 letters: effortfulness, forgetfulness, fretfulnesses, fruitlessness, hurtfulnesses, masterfulness, regretfulness, resentfulness, restfulnesses, ruthfulnesses, tearfulnesses, unfriendliest.
	+5 letters: fortunetellers, fraudulentness, fruitfulnesses, futurelessness, gratefulnesses, interfaculties, mirthfulnesses, nonfluorescent, respectfulness, rightfulnesses, sportfulnesses, tristfulnesses, trustfulnesses, truthfulnesses, ungratefulness, wrathfulnesses.
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