What does vengeful mean?

Definitions for vengeful
ˈvɛndʒ fəlvenge·ful

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. revengeful, vindictive, vengefuladjective

    disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

    "more vindictive than jealous love"- Shakespeare; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature"- M.R.Cohen

Wiktionary

  1. vengefuladjective

    Vindictive or wanting vengeance.

    His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.

ChatGPT

  1. vengeful

    Vengeful refers to a person or character that desires or seeks to inflict harm, punishment or revenge on someone that he or she believes has harmed them. It involves a strong intention to get back at someone or to take revenge for a real or perceived hurt or wrongdoing.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vengefuladjective

    vindictive; retributive; revengeful

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vengeful in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vengeful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of vengeful in a Sentence

  1. Jackie Collins:

    A vicious hit, a vengeful enemy, a drug addled Colombian club owner and a sex crazed Italian family... the ever powerful Lucky Santangelo has to deal with them all. i like writing something that's going to make people laugh, but also turn them on at the same time.

  2. Blackhawk:

    A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.' ~Blackhawk

  3. Candace Owens:

    Octavio Jones/Getty Images has every right to be angry, but if you stay at a place of anger, right, you are ignoring everything that is going on around you. You’re no longer looking and accessing things in the way that you should be accessing things because you’re holding on to this almost vengeful spirit, is he going to get over the trauma of the election of 2020 and begin to paint a vision for 2024 ? What is Octavio Jones/Getty Images vision for 2024 ? Is it I ’m back ? Because that’s not a vision to me. It needs to be more than, ‘ I ’m back. ’.

  4. Abdul Rahim:

    There are no local suspects. This is a feud between Myanmar people. It is not a religious conflict. These are only vengeful murders that were brought over here from Myanmar.

  5. Charlie Kirk:

    The American way of life is being dismantled by a group of bitter, deceitful, vengeful activists.

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