hateful
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English hateful; equivalent to hate + -ful.
Adjective
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: Printed for Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], OCLC 664400715, Act I, scene i, pages 3–4:
- Home I would go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up with gaping Creditors, / Watchful as Fowlers when their Game will spring; [...]
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- Full of hatred.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
evoking hatred
dislikable
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full of hate
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhaːt(ə)ful/
Adjective
hateful
- Disliked, malign, evil, revolting.
- (rare, Late Middle English) Hateful, angry, ireful, raging.
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: hateful
References
- “hāteful (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
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