vengeful

1. 1.

   disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

   “more vindictive than jealous love”

   “punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature”

   Synonymsrevengefulvindictive

   Similarunforgiving

Other forms of vengeful

comparative

vengefuller·

superlative

vengefullest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vengeful

What does vengeful mean?

vengeful means "disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge".

How many syllables are in vengeful?

vengeful has 2 syllables: ven-geful. The stress falls on "ven". In IPA it is /ˈvɛndʒfəl/.

What is another word for vengeful?

Close synonyms include revengeful, vindictive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vengeful a common word?

vengeful is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.