hateful
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English hateful, equivalent to hate + -ful.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈheɪtfəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: hate‧ful
Adjective
[edit]hateful (comparative hatefuller or more hateful, superlative hatefullest or most hateful)
- Evoking a feeling of hatred.
- Dislikeable.
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
- Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
- Full of hatred.
Antonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]evoking hatred
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dislikable
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full of hate
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Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hateful
- Disliked, malign, evil, revolting.
- (rare, Late Middle English) Hateful, angry, ireful, raging.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: hateful
References
[edit]- “hāteful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
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