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hateful

hate·ful

/ˈheɪtfəl/

adjective

What it means

  1. Evoking a feeling of hatred.

    Synonyms: odious

  2. Dislikeable.

    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; […]

    1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4
  3. Full of hatred.

In a sentence

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; […]

1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4

Where it comes from

  1. Middle Englishhateful
  2. Englishhateful

From Middle English hateful. By surface analysis, hate + -ful.

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