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vengefulness

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Main Entry: vengefulness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vindictiveness

Synonyms:

cruelty, grudge, implacableness, malice, mercilessness, rancorousness, resentment, retaliation, revenge, ruthlessness, spite, spitefulness
Main Entry: rancor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bitterness, hatefulness

Synonyms:

acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bile, dudgeon, enmity, grudge, hardness of heart, harshness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill feeling, ill will, malevolence, malice, malignity, mordacity, pique, resentfulness, resentment, retaliation, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, uncharitableness, unfriendliness, variance, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness, virulence

Antonyms:

kindness, love, respect, sympathy
Main Entry: revenge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: retaliation for wrong, grievance

Synonyms:

animus, attack, avenging, avengment, counterblow, counterinsurgency, counterplay, eye for an eye, fight, getting even, ill will, implacability, malevolence, measure for measure, rancor, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, ruthlessness, satisfaction, sortie, spitefulness, tit for tat, vengeance, vengefulness, vindictiveness
Notes: revenge is personal and justice is societal

Antonyms:

forgiveness, pardon, sympathy
Main Entry: spite
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: hateful feeling

Synonyms:

animosity, antipathy, bad blood, contempt, despite, enmity, gall, grudge, harsh feeling, hate, hatred, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, peeve, pique, rancor, resentment, revenge, spitefulness, spleen, umbrage, vengeance, vengefulness, venom, vindictiveness

Antonyms:

liking, love, loving
Main Entry: vengeance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: retaliation for another's act

Synonyms:

avengement, avenging, counterblow, evening of score, eye for an eye, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital, retribution, return, revenge, settling of score, tit for tat, vengefulness, wrath

Antonyms:

forgiveness, pardon
Main Entry: spitefulness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vindictiveness

Synonyms:

cruelty, grudge, implacableness, malice, mercilessness, rancorousness, resentment, retaliation, revenge, ruthlessness, spite, vengefulness
Main Entry: vindictiveness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spitefulness

Synonyms:

anger, cattiness, cruelty, cussedness, evil, hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, meanness, orneriness, revenge, spite, vengefulness, viciousness
Related Words
Main Entry: revenge
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
ruthless, avenging, immitigable, implacable, inexorable, pitiless, rancorous, rankling, remorseless, revengeful, rigorous, stony, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful, vindictive
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Revenge.
Category: 2. Retrospective Sympathetic Affections

Synonyms:

-nouns
revenge, revengement; vengeance; avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation [more]; day of reckoning., rancor, vindictiveness, implacability; malevolence; ruthlessness., avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
-verbs
revenge, avenge; vindicate; take one's revenge, have one's revenge; breathe revenge, breathe vengeance; wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger., have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle., keep the wound green; harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling; bear malice; rankle, rankle in the breast.
-adjectives
revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless; ruthless, rigorous, avenging., unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless, remorseless., aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus; rankling; immitigable.
-phrases
manet ciratrix, manet alid mente repostum; dies irae dies illa; "in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]; inhumanum verbum est ultio [Seneca); malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]; "now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant
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