英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɛnʒ.fəl/

形容詞

vengeful (comparative more vengeful, superlative most vengeful)

1. Vindictive or wanting vengeance.

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

   • 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian‎:

     A vengeful mother-of-three has been jailed for 168 days after being convicted of killing a neighbour's kitten by microwaving the 10-week-old pet.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:vengeful

下位語

• revanchist

派生語

• vengefully
• vengefulness

関連する語

• avenge
• vengeance

Further reading

• “vengeful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vengeful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “vengeful”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.