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Revengeful vs Resentful - What's the difference?

revengeful | resentful | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between revengeful and resentful

is that revengeful is vengeful, vindictive while resentful is inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.

revengeful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Vengeful, vindictive.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
  • *:the baser mind it selfe displayes / In cancred malice and revengefull spight […].

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    resentful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when .
  • Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.

    • Synonyms

    * (Inclined to resent) unforgiving, spiteful * (Full of resentment) bitter

    Derived terms

    * resentfully * resentfulness

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