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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | seeking revenge |
| Synonyms: | implacable, rancorous, resentful, spiteful, vindictive |
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| Main Entry: | punitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning punishment |
| Synonyms: | castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, punishing, punitory, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive |
| Notes: | penal means 'relating to punishment' while punitive means 'serving to punish' |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, rewarding |
| Main Entry: | ruthless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mean, heartless |
| Synonyms: | adamant, barbarous, brutal, callous, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, feral, ferocious, fierce, grim, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, ironfisted, killer, malevolent, merciless, mortal, obdurate, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, remorseless, revengeful, sadistic, savage, severe, stern, stony, surly, unappeasable, unfeeling, unforgiving, unmerciful, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vindictive, without pity |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, considerate, gentle, giving, kind, nice, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | vengeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | retaliating; hating |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, avenging, hostile, implacable, inimical, punitive, rancorous, relentless, retaliatory, revengeful, spiteful, unforgiving, vindictive |
| Antonyms: | condoning, forgiving, liking, pardoning |
| Main Entry: | unforgiving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | merciless |
| Synonyms: | cruel, heartless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, revengeful, ruthless, uncompassionate, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic |
| Antonyms: | compassionate, forgiving, kind, merciful, remorseful, sympathetic, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | punitory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | punishing |
| Synonyms: | castigating, correctional, disciplinary, in reprisal, in retaliation, penal, retaliative, retaliatory, revengeful, vindictive |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | ruthless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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breme, cruel, dowelless, fell, harsh, inclement, incompassionate, inexorable, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, uncompassionate, unmerciful, unpitying, unrelenting
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