Usually means: Bitter about being treated unfairly.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word resentful:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. resentful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. resentful: Merriam-Webster
  3. resentful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. resentful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. resentful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. resentful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Resentful, resentful: Wordnik
  8. resentful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. resentful: Wiktionary
  10. resentful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. resentful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. resentful: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Resentful, resentful: Dictionary.com
  14. resentful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Resentful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. resentful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. resentful: Rhymezone
  18. Resentful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. resentful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. resentful: FreeDictionary.org
  21. resentful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. resentful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resentful: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. resentful: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Inclined to resent, who tends to harbor resentment, when wronged.
▸ adjective:  Harboring resentment, full of resentment, at a given moment.

Similar:
rancorous, acrimonious, bitter, aggrieved, resentive, grudgy, embittered, begrudging, vindictive, gripeful, more...

Opposite:
grateful, thankful, appreciative

Types:
envious, jealous, grudge-bearing, grudge-holding, more...

Phrases:
make resentful, resentful baseball player, bitter resentful, conceited resentful condescension, resentful of or estranged from, more...

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Similar:
rancorous, acrimonious, bitter, aggrieved, resentive, grudgy, embittered, begrudging, vindictive, gripeful, more...

Opposite:
grateful, thankful, appreciative

Types:
envious, jealous, grudge-bearing, grudge-holding, more...

Phrases:
make resentful, resentful baseball player, bitter resentful, conceited resentful condescension, resentful of or estranged from, resentful envious, opposite of resentful, resentful tot, mildly resentful, more...

Colors:
    dark green,     olive,     maroon,     burgundy,     charcoal, more...



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