List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 415

SYNONYMS: vindictive, vengeful, revengeful.
These adjectives mean desiring or proceeding from a desire for revenge.

Vindictive suggests gratuitous or unmotivated rancor and a disposition to retaliate for wrongs, real or imagined: He seemed to take a vindictive pleasure in punishing the least shortcomings. Like many men whose self-love is wounded he felt vindictive.
Vengeful and revengeful imply the impulse to inflict or the infliction of suffering or punishment as retribution for evil or an injury: It was a vengeful massacre. I had a keen, revengeful sense of the insult.