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Revengeful vs Malicious – What’s the difference?

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Revengeful vs Malicious - What's the difference?
Revengeful is a synonym of malicious. As adjectives the difference between revengeful and malicious is that revengeful is vengeful, vindictive while malicious is of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite.

revengeful

English

Adjective

(en adjective )

  • Vengeful, vindictive.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
  • *:the baser mind it selfe displayes / In cancred malice and revengefull spight […].

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    malicious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective )

  • Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
  • spiteful and deliberately harmful
    • He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

    Synonyms

    * malevolent
    * evil
    * See also

    Derived terms

    * maliciously
    * maliciousness
    * malicious mischief

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