hateful

/'heitful/
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Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Feeling or showing intense dislike or animosity: Describes a person, action, or attitude that is full of hate or malice.
    • Deserving or arousing hatred: Describes something so unpleasant, offensive, or wicked that it evokes strong feelings of hatred or disgust in others.
Usage
  • Describing a person or their feelings: Used to characterize someone who harbors strong malice or to describe their hate-filled expressions or actions.
    • He gave her a hateful glare.
    • She was filled with hateful thoughts.
  • Describing an action or thing: Used to label an act, behavior, or object as being so abhorrent that it deserves hatred.
    • It was a hateful act of vandalism.
    • The dictator's regime was hateful.
Examples
  • Describing a person/attitude:
    • His hateful rhetoric spread division in the community.
    • I was shocked by the hateful comments in the letter.
  • Describing an action/thing:
    • Bullying is a hateful behavior.
    • They had to endure hateful living conditions.
Advanced Usage
  • "hateful to": Describing something that is repugnant or offensive to a specific person or group.
    • The idea of cheating was hateful to him.
  • Literary/Formal Use: Often used in formal writing, speeches, or literature to strongly condemn something.
    • The author describes the injustice as a hateful blight on society.
Variants and Related Words
  • Hate (n/v): The intense feeling of dislike, or the act of feeling that dislike. (e.g., / )
  • Hatefully (adv): In a hateful manner.
    • He spoke hatefully about his rivals.
  • Hatefulness (n): The quality of being hateful.
    • The hatefulness of the crime left the town in shock.
Synonyms
  • Despicable: Deserving hatred and contempt.
  • Odious: Extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
  • Abhorrent: Inspiring disgust and loathing.
  • Detestable: Deserving intense dislike.
  • Malevolent: Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
Antonyms
  • Lovable: Inspiring love or affection.
  • Admirable: Deserving respect and approval.
  • Benevolent: Well meaning and kindly.
  • Praiseworthy: Deserving praise.
Related Phrases/Idioms

(Note: "Hateful" itself is not commonly used in fixed idioms. The related noun "hate" is used instead.) - To be filled with hate: To be consumed by intense dislike. - After the betrayal, he was filled with hate. - A object of hate: Something or someone that is hated. - The corrupt official became an object of hate for the citizens.

Adjective
  1. characterized by malice
    • a hateful thing to do
    • in a mean mood
  2. evoking or deserving hatred
    • no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude- Joseph Priestly

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