Hateful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hateful \Hate"ful\ (-f[.u]l), a.
     1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.
        [Archaic or R.]
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              And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes


              His rival's conquest.                 --Dryden.
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     2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust;
        odious.
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              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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hateful
       adj 1: evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is universally as
              hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly [ant: {lovable}]
       2: characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean
          mood" [syn: {mean}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "hateful":
     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