'Spiteful' definitions:
Definition of 'spiteful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment" [syn: despiteful, spiteful, vindictive]
Definition of 'Spiteful'
From: GCIDE
- Spiteful \Spite"ful\, a. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act. --Shak. -- {Spite"ful*ly}, adv. {Spite"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spiteful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- bearish,
- belligerent,
- bitchy,
- bitter,
- cankered,
- cantankerous,
- cattish,
- catty,
- caustic,
- churlish,
- clashing,
- colliding,
- conflicting,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- cross,
- cross-grained,
- crusty,
- cussed,
- despiteful,
- disagreeable,
- evil,
- excitable,
- feisty,
- fractious,
- full of hate,
- hateful,
- hostile,
- huffish,
- huffy,
- invidious,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- mean,
- ornery,
- perverse,
- punitive,
- quarrelsome,
- rancorous,
- repugnant,
- retaliative,
- retaliatory,
- retributive,
- retributory,
- revengeful,
- set against,
- snappish,
- sore,
- spleeny,
- splenetic,
- testy,
- ugly,
- unforgiving,
- unfriendly,
- vengeful,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- vindictive,
- virulent,
- vitriolic,
- waspish,
- wicked