vengeful
adjective/ˈvendʒfl/
/ˈvendʒfl/
(formal)- showing a desire to punish somebody who has harmed you
- He was not a vengeful man.
- What had he done to make Jane so vengeful and bitter?
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from obsolete venge ‘avenge’ (from Old French venger ‘avenge’), on the pattern of revengeful.
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