Dictionary Definition
hateful adj
1 evoking or deserving hatred; "no vice is
universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly [ant:
lovable]
2 characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to
do"; "in a mean mood" [syn: mean]
User Contributed Dictionary
Derived terms
dislikeable
- Swedish: förhatlig
Extensive Definition
Hateful may refer to:
- someone or something full of hate
- "Hateful", a song by The Clash from their 1979 album London Calling
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abhorrent, abominable, acrid, antagonistic, antipathetic, arrant, atrocious, awful, baleful, base, beastly, belligerent, below contempt,
beneath contempt, bitchy,
bitter, blameworthy, brutal, caustic, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contemptible, contemptuous, crude, cussed, deplorable, despicable, despiteful, detestable, dire, disgusting, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forbidding, foul, full of hate, fulsome, grievous, gross, harmful, heinous, horrible, horrid, hostile, ignoble, infamous, iniquitous, invidious, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, malodorous, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, ornery, outrageous, pitiable, pitiful, quarrelsome, rancorous, rank, rebarbative, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, set against, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sore, spiteful, squalid, stinking, terrible, too bad, unclean, unlikable, venomous, vile, villainous, virulent, vitriolic, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched