Meaning of HATEFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'heytful
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- [adj] evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly
- [adj] characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"
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| | Synonyms: | | abominable, awful, detestable, execrable, mean, nasty, odious, unlovable |
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| | Antonyms: | | lovable, loveable | | |
| | See Also: | | hostile, malevolent, malicious, offensive, undesirable | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Hate"ful\, a.
1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.
[Archaic or R.]
And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His
rival's conquest. --Dryden.
2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust;
odious.
Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! --Shak.
Syn: Odious; detestable; abominable; execrable; loathsome;
abhorrent; repugnant; malevolent. -- {Hate"ful*ly}, adv.
-- {Hate"ful*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abhorrent, abominable, acrid, antagonistic, antipathetic, arrant, atrocious, awful, baleful, base, beastly, belligerent, below contempt, beneath contempt, bitchy, bitter, blameworthy, brutal, caustic, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contemptible, contemptuous, crude, cussed, deplorable, despicable, despiteful, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, full of hate, fulsome, grievous, gross, harmful, heinous, horrible, horrid, hostile, ignoble, infamous, iniquitous, invidious, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, malodorous, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, ornery, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, quarrelsome, rancorous, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, set against, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sore, spiteful, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unlikable, venomous, vile, villainous, virulent, vitriolic, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched |
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