'Hateful' definitions:
Definition of 'hateful'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Hateful'
From: GCIDE
- Hateful \Hate"ful\ (-f[.u]l), a.
- 1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. [Archaic or R.] [1913 Webster]
- And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. [1913 Webster]
- Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! --Shak.
- Syn: Odious; detestable; abominable; execrable; loathsome; abhorrent; repugnant; malevolent. -- {Hate"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Hate"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hateful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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