Unkind vs Vengeful - What's the difference?
unkind | vengeful | Related terms |
(obsolete) Having no race or kindred; childless.
Not kind; contrary to nature or type; unnatural.
Lacking kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or similar; cruel, harsh or unjust; ungrateful.
* 1950 July 3, Politicians Without Politics'', '' ,
* 1974 , Laurence William Wylie, Village in the Vaucluse , 3rd Edition,
* 2000 , Edward W. Said, On Lost Causes'', in ''Reflections on Exile and Other Essays ,
Vindictive or wanting vengeance.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 14
, author=Steven Morris
, title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave
, work=Guardian
Unkind is a related term of vengeful.
As adjectives the difference between unkind and vengeful
is that unkind is (obsolete) having no race or kindred; childless while vengeful is vindictive or wanting vengeance.unkind
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- (Shakespeare)
page 16,
- Despite the bursitis, Dewey got in a good round of golf, though his cautious game inspired a reporter to make one of the week?s unkindest remarks: βHe plays golf like he plays politics β straight down the middle, and short.β
page 175,
- We had to learn that to refuse such gifts, which represented serious sacrifice, was more unkind than to accept them.
page 540,
- In the strictness with which he holds this view he belongs in the company of the novelists I have cited, except that he is unkinder and less charitable than they are.
Derived terms
* unkindest cutAnagrams
*vengeful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.
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