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vindictive

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Main Entry: vindictive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hateful, revengeful

Synonyms:

avenging, cruel, grim, grudging, implacable, malicious, malignant, merciless, rancorous, relentless, resentful, retaliatory, ruthless, spiteful, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful, venomous, wreakful

Antonyms:

forgiving, helpful, kind, nice
Main Entry: baleful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: menacing

Synonyms:

calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful
Notes: something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful

Antonyms:

advantageous, auspicious, favorable, good, helping, promising
Main Entry: implacable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: merciless, cruel

Synonyms:

grim, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, ironfisted, mortal, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unappeasable, unbending, uncompromising, unflinching, unforgiving, unrelenting, unyielding, vindictive

Antonyms:

kind, merciful, nice, placable
Main Entry: malevolent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hateful

Synonyms:

bad-natured, baleful, catty, despiteful, dirty, evil, evil-minded, hellish, hostile, lousy, malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous, pernicious, poison, rancorous, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked

Antonyms:

amiable, harmless, kind, liking, loving
Main Entry: punitive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: concerning punishment

Synonyms:

castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, punishing, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive

Antonyms:

beneficial, rewarding
Main Entry: relentless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cruel, merciless

Synonyms:

adamant, bound, bound and determined, dead set on, determined, dogged, ferocious, fierce, go for broke, grim, hang in, hang-tough, hard, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inflexible, inhuman, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, remorseless, rigid, rigorous, ruthless, single-minded, stiff, stop at nothing, strict, stringent, unappeasable, unbending, uncompromising, undeviating, unflinching, unforgiving, unrelenting, unstoppable, unyielding, vindictive

Antonyms:

kind, merciful, sympathetic, understanding
Main Entry: remorseless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without guilt in spite of wrongdoing

Synonyms:

avaricious, barbarous, bloody, callous, cruel, fierce, forbidding, greedy, grim, hard, hard-bitten, hard-hearted, hardened, harsh, impenitent, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, insensitive, intolerant, merciless, murderous, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, rigorous, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, shameless, sour, tough, tyrannical, uncompassionate, uncontrite, unforgiving, unmerciful, unregenerate, unrelenting, unremitting, unrepenting, unyielding, vindictive

Antonyms:

ashamed, guilty, remorseful, sad, sorry
Main Entry: ruthless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mean, heartless

Synonyms:

adamant, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, ironfisted, killer, malevolent, merciless, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, remorseless, revengeful, sadistic, savage, severe, stern, stony, surly, unappeasable, unfeeling, unforgiving, unmerciful, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vindictive, without pity

Antonyms:

compassionate, considerate, gentle, giving, kind, nice, sympathetic
Main Entry: spiteful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hurtful, nasty

Synonyms:

accidentally on purpose, angry, barbed, catty, cruel, cussed, despiteful, dirty, evil, hateful, ill-disposed, ill-natured, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, ornery*, rancorous, snide, spleenful, splenetic, venomous, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked

Antonyms:

affectionate, forgiving, helpful, loving, pleasing
Main Entry: unmerciful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: cruel

Synonyms:

bestial, bloodthirsty, brutal, coldhearted, hard, heartless, hurtful, implacable, inhumane, merciless, monstrous, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, tyrannous, uncaring, unfeeling, unpitying, unrelenting, unsparing, vengeful, vindictive

Antonyms:

generous, kind, merciful, nice
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