Vengeful vs Wrath - What's the difference?
vengeful | wrath |
Vindictive or wanting vengeance.
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Great anger.
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(trading card games, slang) A single card that is able to destroy many creatures.
As adjectives the difference between vengeful and wrath
is that vengeful is vindictive or wanting vengeance while wrath is wrathful; very angry.As a noun wrath is
great anger.As a verb wrath is
to anger; to enrage.vengeful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.
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Synonyms
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* * *wrath
English
Noun
(en-noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
- A revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.