hateful

hateful

English

Alternative forms

• hatefull

Etymology

From Middle English hateful; equivalent to hate +‎ -ful.

Adjective

hateful (comparative hatefuller or more hateful, superlative hatefullest or most hateful)

1. Evoking a feeling of hatred.
2. 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; [...]

3. Full of hatred.

Antonyms

• loveful

Derived terms

• hatefully
• hatefulness

Related terms

• hate
• hatel
• hatred
• hatable

Translations

evoking hatred

Bulgarian: омразен (bg) (omrazen), ненавистен (bg) (nenavisten) Catalan: odiós French: odieux (fr) m German: (rare) häßlich (de), gehässig (de) Greek: Ancient: ἀπεχθής (apekhthḗs), στυγερός (stugerós) Irish: fuafar Middle Irish: fúathmar

Japanese: 憎い (ja) (nikui), 忌まわしい (imawashii) Persian: نفرت انگیز‎ (fa) (nefrat-angiz), هودر‎ (fa) (howdar) Russian: ненави́стный (ru) (nenavístnyj) Spanish: odioso (es) m, odiosa (es) f Swedish: förhatlig (sv) Turkish: iğrenç (tr), tiksinç (tr), nefret uyandıran

dislikable

Bulgarian: отвратителен (bg) (otvratitelen) Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), омерзи́тельный (ru) (omerzítelʹnyj)

Spanish: odioso (es) m Swedish: förhatlig (sv) Turkish: iğrenç (tr)

full of hate

Bulgarian: мразещ (bg) (mrazešt) Danish: hadefuld (da) Dutch: hatelijk (nl) Esperanto: malama French: haineux (fr) German: hasserfüllt (de)

Greek: Ancient: στυγερός (stugerós) Polish: nienawistny (pl) Russian: по́лный не́нависти (pólnyj nénavisti) Swedish: hatisk (sv) Turkish: nefret dolu

Anagrams

• eathful, heatful

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• haatful, hatefull, hatfull, hatteful, hatful, hatfful, hatefulle

Etymology

From hate +‎ -ful.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːt(ə)ful/

Adjective

hateful

1. Disliked, malign, evil, revolting.
2. (rare, Late Middle English) Hateful, angry, ireful, raging.

Derived terms

• hatfully

Descendants

• English: hateful

References

• “hāteful (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.