hateful
/'heitful/
Definition
- 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
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characterized by malice
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a hateful thing to do
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in a mean mood
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evoking or deserving hatred
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no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude- Joseph Priestly
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