Synonyms for resentful
rɪˈzɛnt fəlre·sent·ful

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1. resentfuladjective

   Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.

   Synonyms:
   spiteful, unforgiving

2. resentfuladjective

   Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.

   Synonyms:
   bitter

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1. resentful

   Balky, mulish, obstinate, and stubborn are synonyms of restive only in an infrequent if not obsolete use; the supposed sense of "tending to rest," "standing stubbornly still," is scarcely supported by any examples, and those cited to support that meaning often fail to do so. The disposition to offer active resistance to control by any means whatever is what is commonly indicated by restive in the best English speech and literature. Dryden speaks of "the pampered colt" as "restiff to the rein;" but the rein is not used to propel a horse forward, but to hold him in, and it is against this that he is "restiff." A horse may be made restless by flies or by martial music, but with no refractoriness; the restive animal impatiently resists or struggles to break from control, as by bolting, flinging his rider, or otherwise. With this the metaphorical use of the word agrees, which is always in the sense of such terms as impatient, intractable, rebellious, and the like; a people restive under despotism are not disposed to "rest" under it, but to resist it and fling it off.

   Synonyms:
   balky, fidgety, fractious, fretful, frisky, impatient, intractable, mulish, mutinous, obstinate, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restiff, restive, restless, skittish, stubborn, unruly, vicious

   Antonyms:
   docile, gentle, manageable, obedient, passive, peaceable, quiet, submissive, tractable, yielding

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1. resentful

   Synonyms:
   choleric, malicious, vindictive, intolerant, insubmissive

   Antonyms:
   meek, mild, placable, tolerant, forgiving, submissive

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1. resentfuladjective

   full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will

   "resentful at the way he was treated"; "a sullen resentful attitude"

   Antonyms:
   unbitter, unresentful

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1. resentful

   Synonyms:
   a. irascible, choleric, vindictive, revengeful, malignant, ill-tempered

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1. List of paraphrases for "resentful":

   vengeful, bitter

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1. Phil Robertson:

   Australia is basically paying blood money to a much poorer, less developed state with a shoddy record of refugee protection to take people that Canberra doesn't want, when they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.

2. Suzanne Maloney:

   It's hard to overstate how angry and resentful the Europeans are.

3. Marya Mannes:

   But the silly male fool is often unaware of how much a look,a touch, a word can hold for a woman.Nor does he seem to have any idea at all of the degree to which their absence can make her cross,resentful ,tiresome." This is from her essay "The Power Men have over Women

4. Phil Robertson:

   When they get there, the refugees will find huge hurdles to integrate, jobs that are few and far between, and a resentful local population wondering why this group should get a time-limited year of Australian assistance when ordinary Cambodians do not.

5. Gautama Buddha:

   Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.