Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge:
— More vindictive than jealous love.
— Punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature.

synonyms: revengeful, vengeful.

Roget 901: irascible; bad-tempered, ill-tempered; irritable, susceptible; excitable etc. 825; thin-skinned etc. (sensitive) 822; fretful, fidgety; on the fret.    hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy^†, tetchy; like touchwood, like tinder; huffy, pettish, petulant; waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel" [As You Like It]. querulous, captious, moodish^†; quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious; pugnacious etc. (bellicose) 720; cantankerous, exceptious^†; restiff etc. (perverse) 901.1^†; churlish etc. (discourteous) 895.    cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs; fractious, peevish, acari=atre^†.    in a bad temper; sulky etc. 901.1; angry etc. 900.    resentful, resentive^†; vindictive etc. 919.    ... show more

Roget 919: revengeful, vengeful; vindictive, rancorous; pitiless etc. 914.1; ruthless, rigorous, avenging.    unforgiving, unrelenting; inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable; relentless, remorseless.    aeternum servans sub pectore vulnus [Lat.]; rankling; immitigable.    ... show more

Polish: mściwy, zemściwy

Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite:
— A vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment.

synonyms: despiteful, spiteful.

Polish: nienawistny