Revengeful

Definition: Revengeful

Revengeful

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.

Date "revengeful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Revengeful

Synonyms: vengeful (adj), vindictive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Malevolence	Cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted; black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted; hard of heart, unnatural; ruthless; (unmerciful) a; relentless; (revengeful).
Revenge	Adjective: revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless; a; ruthless, rigorous, avenging.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Revengeful

English words defined with "revengeful": revengefully, Revenging ♦ Vengeable, vengefully, Vindicative, vindictively ♦ Wreakful. (references)

Specialty definitions using "revengeful": Mussulmans. (references)

Etymologies containing "revengeful": Vengeable ♦ Wreakful. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	With martial valor, if one becomes like a revengeful ghost and shows great determination, though his head is cut off, he should not die. (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; writing credit: Jim Jarmusch)
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Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Revengeful Swordswoman (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Author	Quotation
Thomas Fuller	The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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Title	Author	Quote
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	For they are cunning, malicious, treacherous, and revengeful.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	I performed a conscientious duty, without asking promotion or command, and without a revengeful feeling toward any section or individual.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Revengeful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Revengeful" is used about 4 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%	4	175,879

Expression using "revengeful": revengeful act. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "revengeful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏منتقم (avenger, retributive, revenger, vengeful), ‏مائل للثأر, ‏حقود (hateful, ill-wisher, malicious, malignant, rancorous, spiteful, venomous). (various references)

Bulgarian		отмъстителен (avengeful, malevolent, vengeful, vindictive). (various references)

Czech		pomstychtivý (avengeful, vengeful, vindictive), mstivý (vengeful, vindictive). (various references)

Finnish		kostonhimoinen (vindictive). (various references)

French		vindicatif, vengeur (retributive, Revenger). (various references)

German		rachsüchtig (avenging, vengeful, vindictive, vindictively), rachgierig. (various references)

Greek		εκδικητικόσ (vengeful, vindictive). (various references)

Hebrew		נקמני (vengeful, vindictive). (various references)

Hungarian		bosszúvágyó (vengeful). (various references)

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

Japanese Kanji		怨霊 (apparition, revengeful ghost). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おんりょう (amiable, apparition, gentle, revengeful ghost, volume). (various references)

Manx		jiooghaltagh (devouring, devouring with fire, revenger), goanlyssagh (malevolent, malicious, malignant, rancorous, spiteful, spiteful person, vicious, vicious spiteful, vindictive). (various references)

Pig Latin		evengefulray

Portuguese		vingativo (avengeful, rancorous, resentful, spiteful, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, wicked), com desejo de vingança (avengeful). (various references)

Romanian		rãzbunãtor (avengeful, avenger, malicious, retributive, spiteful, vengeful, vindictive). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		osvetoljubiv (avengeful, vengeful, vindicative, vindictive). (various references)

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

Swedish		hämndlysten (vengeful, vindictive). (various references)

Thai		เต็มไปด้วยความแค้น. (various references)

Turkish		kindar (grudging, malevolent, spiteful, vindictive), kinci (grudger, grudging, rancorous, resentful, retributive, spiteful, vengeful, vindictive), intikamcı (avenger, retributive, revanchist, vengeful, vindicative), öç almak isteyen. (various references)

Ukranian		мстивий (avengeful, rancorous, vengeful, vindictive). (various references)

Vietnamese		hiềm thù, hay báo thù; hay thù hằn; mang mối thù hằn. (various references)

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

Derivations
	Words beginning with "revengeful": revengefully, revengefulness, revengefulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Revengeful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: revangeful. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "revengeful" (pronounced 'Re*venge"ful'): Abuseful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful, Crimeful, Cropful, Cupful, Dareful, Darkful, Deathful. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-g-l-n-r-u-v"
	-2 letters: vengeful.
	-3 letters: enfever, nervule, refugee, revenge, revenue, unreeve.
	-4 letters: eleven, engulf, evener, feeler, ferule, fueler, lungee, lunger, refeel, refuel, refuge, reglue, releve, renege, unfree, unreel, velure, veneer, venule.
	-5 letters: elver, enure, fever, fleer, flung, fugle, gelee, genre, gluer, green, gruel, leger, levee, lever, luger, lunge, nerve, never, reeve, refel, revel, revue, venge, venue, verge.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-g-l-n-r-u-v"
	+2 letters: revengefully.
	+4 letters: revengefulness.
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