Retaliate vs Vindictive - What's the difference?
retaliate | vindictive |
To do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.
To repay or requite by an act of the same kind.
* Sir T. Herbert
* Jonathan Swift
Having a tendency to seek revenge when , vengeful.
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(obsolete) punitive
As a verb retaliate
is to do something harmful or negative to get revenge for some harm; to fight back or respond in kind to an injury or affront.As an adjective vindictive is
having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.retaliate
English
Verb
(retaliat)- John insulted Peter to retaliate for Peter's acid remark earlier.
- One ambassador sent word to the duke's son that his visit should be retaliated .
- It is unlucky to be obliged to retaliate the injuries of authors, whose works are so soon forgotten that we are in danger of appearing the first aggressors.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* retaliation * retaliative * retaliatoryExternal links
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Anagrams
*vindictive
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.}}
citation, passage=The victors will exact vindictive penalties and the losers of course will undertake to pay, but none of them realizes that money is going to do the most extraordinary things to them when they begin upon that.}}