| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, dressing |
| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, book binding, cover |
| (noun) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration | - |
| (noun) one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall | Synonyms: ski binding |
| (noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | - |
| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contraindication | (noun) (medicine) a reason that makes it inadvisable to prescribe a particular drug or employ a particular procedure or treatment | - |
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| faultfinding | (adjective) tending to find and call attention to faults | Synonyms: captious |
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| (adjective) tending to make moral judgments or judgments based on personal opinions | - |
| (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
| finding | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: determination |
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| (noun) the decision of a court on issues of fact or law | - |
| (noun) something that is found | - |
| findings | (noun) a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes | - |
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| grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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| (noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
| indicant | (noun) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time | Synonyms: index, index number, indicator |
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| (noun) something that serves to indicate or suggest | Synonyms: indication |
| indicate | (verb) to state or express briefly | - |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, point, signal |
| (verb) give evidence of | Synonyms: argue |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, point, show |
| (verb) suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine | - |
| indication | (noun) a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument | Synonyms: meter reading, reading |
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| (noun) something that serves to indicate or suggest | Synonyms: indicant |
| (noun) the act of indicating or pointing out by name | Synonyms: denotation |
| (noun) (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure | - |
| (noun) something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary | - |
| indicative | (adjective) relating to the mood of verbs that is used simple in declarative statements | Synonyms: declarative |
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| (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicatory, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
| (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative mood |
| indicator | (noun) a device for showing the operating condition of some system | - |
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| (noun) a number or ratio (a value on a scale of measurement) derived from a series of observed facts; can reveal relative changes as a function of time | Synonyms: index, index number, indicant |
| (noun) a signal for attracting attention | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance that changes color to indicate the presence of some ion or substance; can be used to indicate the completion of a chemical reaction or (in medicine) to test for a particular reaction | - |
| indicatory | (adjective) (usually followed by `of') pointing out or revealing clearly | Synonyms: indicative, revelatory, significative, suggestive |
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| indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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| indictability | (noun) the state of being liable to impeachment | Synonyms: impeachability |
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| indictable | (adjective) liable to be accused, or cause for such liability | Synonyms: chargeable |
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| indiction | (noun) a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms | - |
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| indictment | (noun) a formal document written for a prosecuting attorney charging a person with some offense | Synonyms: bill of indictment |
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| (noun) an accusation of wrongdoing | - |
| indie | (adjective) (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company | - |
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| (noun) a pop group not affiliated with a major record company | - |
| (noun) an independent film company not associated with an established studio | - |
| indifference | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, numbness, spiritlessness |
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| (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: nonchalance, unconcern |
| (noun) unbiased impartial unconcern | - |
| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
| indifferent | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed | Synonyms: deaf |
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| (adjective) characterized by a lack of partiality | Synonyms: unbiased, unbiassed |
| (adjective) fairly poor to not very good | - |
| (adjective) neither too great nor too little | - |
| (adjective) being neither good nor bad | Synonyms: so-so |
| (adjective) showing no care or concern in attitude or action | - |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: immaterial |
| (adjective) marked by a lack of interest | Synonyms: apathetic |
| (adjective) having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive | Synonyms: inert, neutral |
| (adjective) marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another | - |
| indifferently | (adverb) with indifference; in an indifferent manner | - |
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| indigen | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigene, native |
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| indigence | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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| indigene | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, native |
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| indigenous | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic |
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| indigenously | (adverb) in an indigenous manner | - |
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| indigenousness | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: autochthony, endemism |
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| indigent | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken |
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| indigestibility | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibleness |
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| indigestible | (adjective) digested with difficulty | - |
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| indigestibleness | (noun) the property of being difficult to digest | Synonyms: indigestibility |
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| indigestion | (noun) a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea | Synonyms: dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset stomach |
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| indignant | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, outraged, umbrageous |
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| indignantly | (adverb) in an indignant manner | - |
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| indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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| indignity | (noun) an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem | - |
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| indigo | (adjective) having a color between blue and violet | - |
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| (noun) a blue-violet color | - |
| (noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
| (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
| indigotin | (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigo |
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| indinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Crixivan) used for treating HIV | Synonyms: Crixivan |
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| indirect | (adjective) not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination | - |
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| (adjective) extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action | - |
| (adjective) descended from a common ancestor but through different lines | Synonyms: collateral |
| (adjective) having intervening factors or persons or influences | - |
| (adjective) not as a direct effect or consequence | - |
| indirection | (noun) indirect procedure or action | - |
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| (noun) deceitful action that is not straightforward | - |
| indirectly | (adverb) not in a forthright manner | - |
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| indirectness | (noun) having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal | - |
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| indiscernibility | (noun) The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. | - |
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| indiscernible | (adjective) difficult or impossible to perceive or discern | - |
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| (adjective) barely able to be perceived | Synonyms: insensible, undetectable |
| indiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: undiscipline |
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| indiscreet | (adjective) lacking discretion; injudicious | - |
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| indiscreetly | (adverb) without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint | - |
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| indiscreetness | (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
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| indiscrete | (adjective) not divided or divisible into parts | - |
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| indiscretion | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: peccadillo |
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| (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
| indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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| (adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
| indiscriminately | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, randomly, willy-nilly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: promiscuously |
| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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| indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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| indispensable | (adjective) not to be dispensed with; essential | - |
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| (adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: essential |
| (adjective) unavoidable | - |
| indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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| indispose | (verb) cause to feel unwell | - |
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| (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, unfit |
| (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: disincline |
| indisposed | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse, loath, loth |
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| (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: ailing, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
| indisposition | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance |
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| (noun) a slight illness | - |
| indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| indisputable | (adjective) impossible to doubt or dispute | Synonyms: sure |
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| (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: incontestable, undisputable |
| indissoluble | (adjective) (of a substance) incapable of being dissolved | Synonyms: insoluble |
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| (adjective) used of decisions and contracts | - |
| indistinct | (adjective) not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand | - |
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| indistinctly | (adverb) in a dim indistinct manner | Synonyms: dimly |
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| indistinctness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, softness |
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| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| indite | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, pen, write |
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| indium | (noun) a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite | Synonyms: atomic number 49, In |
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| individual | (adjective) being or characteristic of a single thing or person | Synonyms: single |
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| (adjective) separate and distinct from others of the same kind | Synonyms: case-by-case, item-by-item |
| (adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: private |
| (adjective) characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing | Synonyms: single |
| (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
| (noun) a single organism | - |
| individualisation | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualization, individuation |
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| individualise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualize, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualize |
| individualised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualized, personalised, personalized |
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| individualism | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individuality, individuation |
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| (noun) the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs | Synonyms: laissez faire |
| (noun) a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence | - |
| individualist | (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualistic |
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| (noun) a person who pursues independent thought or action | - |
| individualistic | (adjective) with minimally restricted freedom in commerce | Synonyms: laissez-faire |
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| (adjective) marked by or expressing individuality | Synonyms: individualist |
| individualistically | (adverb) in an individualistic manner | - |
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| individuality | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuation |
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| (noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | Synonyms: identity, personal identity |
| individualization | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individuation |
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| individualize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, personalise, personalize |
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| (verb) make or mark or treat as individual | Synonyms: individualise |
| individualized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, personalised, personalized |
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| individually | (adverb) apart from others | Synonyms: on an individual basis, one by one, separately, severally, singly |
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| individuate | (verb) give individual shape or form to | - |
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| (verb) give individual character to | - |
| individuation | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuality |
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| (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individualization |
| indivisibility | (noun) (arithmetic) The state of being impossible to divide by a specific integer without leaving a remainder. | - |
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| indivisible | (adjective) impossible of undergoing division | - |
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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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| shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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| spellbinding | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing |
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| unvindictive | (adjective) not vindictive | - |
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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 |