kindliness | (noun) friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition | Synonyms: helpfulness |
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kindling | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting |
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(noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
kindly | (adjective) pleasant and agreeable | - |
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(adjective) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity | Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic |
(adverb) in a kind manner or out of kindness | - |
kindness | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: benignity |
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(noun) the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic | - |
(noun) tendency to be kind and forgiving | Synonyms: forgivingness |
kindred | (adjective) related by blood or marriage | - |
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(adjective) similar in quality or character | Synonyms: akin |
(noun) group of people related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, tribe |
lindane | (noun) a white crystalline powder used as an agricultural insecticide | - |
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linden | (noun) any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber | Synonyms: basswood, lime, lime tree, linden tree |
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(noun) soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork | Synonyms: basswood |
lindy | (noun) an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh) | Synonyms: lindy hop |
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mankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, world |
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mastermind | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, originator |
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(noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, brainiac, Einstein, genius |
(verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
mind | (noun) that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason | Synonyms: brain, head, nous, psyche |
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(noun) recall or remembrance | - |
(noun) attention | - |
(noun) an opinion formed by judging something | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
(noun) knowledge and intellectual ability | Synonyms: intellect |
(noun) your intention; what you intend to do | Synonyms: idea |
(noun) an important intellectual | Synonyms: creative thinker, thinker |
(verb) keep in mind | Synonyms: bear in mind |
(verb) be concerned with or about something or somebody | - |
(verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: beware |
(verb) be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by | - |
(verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, listen |
(verb) be in charge of or deal with | Synonyms: take care |
minded | (adjective) (used in combination) mentally oriented toward something specified | - |
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(adjective) (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward | Synonyms: apt, disposed, given, tending |
minder | (noun) a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working | Synonyms: baby minder, babyminder |
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(noun) someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors | - |
mindfuck | (noun) Something that intentionally destabilizes, confuses or manipulates the mind of another person | - |
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mindful | (adjective) bearing in mind; attentive to | Synonyms: aware |
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mindfully | (adverb) in a careful deliberate manner | Synonyms: advertently, heedfully |
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mindfulness | (noun) the trait of staying aware of (paying close attention to) your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedfulness |
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mindless | (adjective) not mindful or attentive | Synonyms: forgetful, unmindful |
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(adjective) devoid of intelligence or thought | Synonyms: vacant, vacuous |
(adjective) lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being | - |
(adjective) requiring little mental effort | - |
(adjective) not marked by the use of reason | Synonyms: reasonless, senseless |
mindlessly | (adverb) in an unreasonably senseless manner | Synonyms: senselessly |
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(adverb) without intellectual involvement | - |
mindlessness | (noun) the trait of acting rashly and without prudence | Synonyms: heedlessness, rashness |
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(noun) total lack of meaning or ideas | Synonyms: inanity, pointlessness, senselessness, vacuity |
mindset | (noun) a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations | Synonyms: mentality, mind-set, outlook |
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molindone | (noun) antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia | Synonyms: Moban |
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netminder | (noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, netkeeper |
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nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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nonindulgent | (adjective) characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint | Synonyms: strict |
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nonindustrial | (adjective) not having highly developed manufacturing enterprises | - |
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norethindrone | (noun) a synthetic progestational hormone (trade name Norlutin) used in oral contraceptives and to treat endometriosis | Synonyms: norethandrolone, norethindrone acetate, Norlutin |
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overindulge | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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overindulgent | (adjective) excessively indulgent | - |
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palindrome | (noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward | - |
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pathfinder | (noun) someone who can find paths through unexplored territory | Synonyms: guide, scout |
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pindolol | (noun) an oral beta blocker (trade name Visken) used in treating hypertension | Synonyms: Visken |
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postindustrial | (adjective) of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research | - |
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preindication | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, sign |
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purblind | (adjective) having greatly reduced vision | Synonyms: dim-sighted, near-blind, sand-blind, visually challenged, visually impaired |
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(adjective) lacking in insight or discernment | Synonyms: obtuse |
qindarka | (noun) 100 qindarka equal 1 lek in Albania | Synonyms: qintar |
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raindrop | (noun) a drop of rain | - |
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rangefinder | (noun) a measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object | Synonyms: range finder |
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rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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reindeer | (noun) Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America | Synonyms: caribou, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus |
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rejoinder | (noun) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) | Synonyms: comeback, counter, replication, retort, return, riposte |
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(noun) (law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replication | - |
rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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(verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
remainder | (noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | Synonyms: end, oddment, remnant |
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(noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: difference |
(noun) the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor | - |
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away | Synonyms: balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest |
(verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
remind | (verb) put in the mind of someone | - |
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(verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, prompt |
reminder | (noun) an experience that causes you to remember something | - |
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(noun) a message that helps you remember something | - |
(noun) someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided | Synonyms: admonisher, monitor |
remindful | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, reminiscent, resonant |
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rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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rescindable | (adjective) capable of being rescinded or voided | Synonyms: voidable |
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rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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rind | (noun) the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating) | - |
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rinderpest | (noun) an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | Synonyms: cattle plague |
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sertindole | (noun) an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia. | - |
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shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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shopwindow | (noun) a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store | Synonyms: display window, shop window, show window |
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sidewinder | (noun) small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve | Synonyms: Crotalus cerastes, horned rattlesnake |
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(noun) air-to-air missile with infrared homing device | - |
snowblindness | (noun) temporary blindness caused by exposure to sunlight reflected from snow or ice | Synonyms: snow-blindness |
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spellbind | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: entrance |
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(verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize |
(verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, transfix |
spellbinder | (noun) an orator who can hold his listeners spellbound | - |
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spellbinding | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing |
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spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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(noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
(noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
(noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
(noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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(noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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(noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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sulindac | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Clinoril) | Synonyms: Clinoril |
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sunblind | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: awning, sunshade |
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surrejoinder | (noun) (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinder | - |
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swindle | (noun) the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme | Synonyms: cheat, fraud, rig |
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(verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, victimize |
swindler | (noun) a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud | Synonyms: chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, gouger, grifter, scammer |
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tailwind | (noun) wind blowing in the same direction as the path of a ship or aircraft | - |
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tamarind | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarindo |
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(noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind tree, tamarindo, Tamarindus indica |
tamarindo | (noun) large tropical seed pod with very tangy pulp that is eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved for curries and chutneys | Synonyms: tamarind |
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(noun) long-lived tropical evergreen tree with a spreading crown and feathery evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers yielding hard yellowish wood and long pods with edible chocolate-colored acidic pulp | Synonyms: tamarind, tamarind tree, Tamarindus indica |
tinder | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, touchwood |
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tinderbox | (noun) a box for holding tinder | - |
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(noun) a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence | - |
unbind | (verb) untie or unfasten | - |
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unhindered | (adjective) not slowed or blocked or interfered with | Synonyms: unhampered |
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unindustrialised | (adjective) not converted to industrialism | Synonyms: unindustrialized |
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unindustrialized | (adjective) not converted to industrialism | Synonyms: unindustrialised |
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unkind | (adjective) lacking kindness | - |
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(adjective) deficient in humane and kindly feelings | Synonyms: pitiless |
unkindled | (adjective) not set afire | - |
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unkindly | (adjective) lacking in sympathy and kindness | Synonyms: unsympathetic |
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(adverb) in an unkind manner or with unkindness | - |
unkindness | (noun) lack of sympathy | - |
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unmindful | (adjective) not mindful or attentive | Synonyms: forgetful, mindless |
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(adjective) (followed by `to' or `of') lacking conscious awareness of | Synonyms: oblivious |
unmindfully | (adverb) in a careless and thoughtless manner | - |
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unmindfulness | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency |
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unvindictive | (adjective) not vindictive | - |
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unwind | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend |
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(verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain |
(verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: disentangle |
(verb) reverse the winding or twisting of | Synonyms: unroll, wind off |
upwind | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: weather |
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(adverb) in the direction opposite to the direction the wind is blowing | Synonyms: against the wind, into the wind |
(adverb) away from the wind | Synonyms: leeward |
viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
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vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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(verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
(verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
vindicated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated |
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vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
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(noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, defense |
vindicator | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, justifier |
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vindicatory | (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
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(adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, retributory |
(adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory |
vindictive | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, spiteful |
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(adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vengeful |
vindictively | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vengefully |
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vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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