hateful
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From Middle English hateful, equivalent to hate + -ful.
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hateful (comparative hatefuller or more hateful, superlative hatefullest or most hateful)
- Evoking a feeling of hatred.
- Dislikeable.
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
- Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]
- Full of hatred.
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evoking hatred
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dislikable
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full of hate
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hateful
- Disliked, malign, evil, revolting.
- (rare, Late Middle English) Hateful, angry, ireful, raging.
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- English: hateful
References edit
- “hāteful, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.