'Spite' definitions:
Definition of 'spite'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty [syn: cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness]
verb
Definition of 'Spite'
From: GCIDE
- Spite \Spite\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spited; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiting.]
- 1. To be angry at; to hate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language. --Sir. W. Temple. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spite'
From: GCIDE
- Spite \Spite\, n. [Abbreviated fr. despite.]
- 1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- This is the deadly spite that angers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- In spite of, or Spite of, in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. "Continuing, spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly injured." --H. Spenser. "And saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself." --South. "In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day." --Arbuthnot. See Syn. under Notwithstanding.
- To owe one a spite, to entertain a mean hatred for him. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Pique, rancor; malevolence; grudge.
- Usage: Spite, Malice. Malice has more reference to the disposition, and spite to the manifestation of it in words and actions. It is, therefore, meaner than malice, thought not always more criminal. " Malice . . . is more frequently employed to express the dispositions of inferior minds to execute every purpose of mischief within the more limited circle of their abilities." --Cogan. "Consider eke, that spite availeth naught." --Wyatt. See Pique. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spite'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- Anglophobia,
- animosity,
- annoy,
- antagonism,
- anti-Semitism,
- antipathy,
- aversion,
- belligerence,
- bigotry,
- bitchiness,
- bitterness,
- bone to pick,
- cattiness,
- clash,
- clashing,
- collision,
- conflict,
- contention,
- crow to pick,
- crow to pluck,
- despite,
- despitefulness,
- detestation,
- discomfit,
- disconcert,
- dislike,
- execration,
- friction,
- gall and wormwood,
- gloating pleasure,
- grudge,
- hate,
- hatred,
- hostility,
- hurt,
- ignoring,
- ill,
- ill will,
- in defiance of,
- in spite of,
- injure,
- irritate,
- loathing,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- maliciousness,
- malignity,
- misandry,
- misanthropy,
- misogyny,
- needle,
- notwithstanding,
- odium,
- offend,
- peeve,
- pet peeve,
- pique,
- provoke,
- put out,
- quarrelsomeness,
- race hatred,
- racism,
- rancor,
- regardless of,
- repugnance,
- resentment,
- Russophobia,
- Schadenfreude,
- spitefulness,
- spleen,
- unholy joy,
- upset,
- venom,
- vex,
- vials of hate,
- vials of wrath,
- vindictiveness,
- wound,
- xenophobia