hateful

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Melrose?--hateful--cruel--tyrannical!--when you must silence all that is generous and noble Her voice failed her Faversham's lips tightened.

View all »
Definitions (9)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. adjective Eliciting or deserving hatred.
  2. adjective Feeling or showing hatred; malevolent.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: hateful, detestable, odious, offensive, repellent
    These often interchangeable adjectives describe what elicits or deserves strong dislike, distaste, or revulsion. Hateful refers to what evokes hatred or deep animosity: "No vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude” (Joseph Priestley).
    Detestable applies to what arouses abhorrence or scorn: detestable crimes against humanity.
    Something odious is the object of disgust, aversion, or intense displeasure: "a kind of slimy stuff ... of a most nauseous, odious smell” (Daniel Defoe).
    Offensive applies to what offends or excites displeasure: an offensive suggestion.
    Something repellent arouses repugnance or disgust: repellent criminal behavior.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • The only original idea in the resultant mix is the concept of a "superhero" whom nobody likes because he is rude and hateful, and causes millions of dollars of damage as he goes about doing what "good" he occasionally feels like doing. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
  • (We get to decide what's discriminatory, hateful, attacking, or inflammatory). —  Shameless Magazine: latest blog entries
  • (Note the specific physical parallels between the two videos -- hateful slogans, physical threats, pushing cars, resisting cops.) —  Wheat & Weeds
  • I figured that some would call it hateful, and that others would cheer with glee and bookmark it. —  blogTO
  • Palin's nomination has brought to light just how rabid, hateful, and controlling liberals really are, lets face it, they are communists who want state control of everything, and they want to do the controlling. —  legitgov
More examples »
 

Tags

hateful hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 182 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

cruel ·  odious ·  vile ·  vindictive ·  repulsive ·  inhuman ·  nasty ·  unpleasant ·  detestable ·  vulgar ·  degrade ·  frightful
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. from Middle English hateful (= Swedish hatfull = Danish hadefuld); from hate + -ful. Cf. hattle, hettle.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈheɪtfəl/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a week.

Recently looked up

snakehead · Dit · caterpillar · george · dae

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

these grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor · forget what witticism you were originally going to insert here because you've just banged your knee on your desk · the rest will come naturally