hateful
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3.6
- adjective
- /ˈheɪtfl/
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- Racism is one of the most vile or hateful ways to interact with someone.
- hateful words
- hateful speech
- hateful language
What I find boring and just hateful, they find great.
- What I find boring and just hateful, they find great.
- What are these hateful things that you're saying exactly?
- So what did UCLA do in response to actual hateful violence against their students?
- I hate that people can be so hateful, so spiteful.
- Do not believe all of this horrible, hateful rhetoric about immigrants.
- How can they be so weak, so uninformed, so pathetic, so hateful toward our own country?
- It was more I need to stop judging and being hateful.
- We don't see certain humans as evil and hateful.
- Yeah but the text is still hateful though, isn't it?
- If we do this, we can avoid getting ourselves upset, angry, hateful towards them.
- To be hateful doesn't accomplish anything.
- Killed by cowardly, hateful American terrorists.
- You know, at the end, we're promoting A hateful message.
- So to to challenge them is to be hateful.
- You can't be racist and say hateful things.
- Why has the United States been so suspicious and so destructive and hateful of Russia?
- That like, it's not OK to have platforms that amplify things that are disgusting, hateful and damaging?
- Could not pronounce the title more hateful to my name.
Examples
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Charlotte is the most critical and hateful main character in our story.
Academic text (2002) -
University leaders are generally quick to take down and denounce hateful speech.
Academic text (2017) -
If we do this, we can avoid getting ourselves upset, angry, hateful towards them.
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Jack, why do you have to be so hateful to her?
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I looked around to check for the wounds caused by those hateful words.
Academic text (2005) -
I hate that people can be so hateful, so spiteful.
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And it is such a hateful sect of Christianity.
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You're just a cruel, hateful man!
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Don't become hateful to the many because they're unlike you.
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His hateful remarks created a very tense atmosphere at the meeting.
Synonyms
95
5.7
Very bad in a way that makes people feel strong dislike and disgust
23
5.1
Wanting to hurt or upset someone on purpose
20
8.2
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel strong dislike
20
7.7
Causing strong disgust or hatred in people
15
7.4
Very bad and makes people feel angry or disgusted
9
6.5
Very unpleasant and causing people to feel strong dislike or hate
6
6.3
Showing strong hate and wanting to hurt someone
1
5.6
Easy for people to dislike because it seems rude or cruel
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel disgusted
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick
Antonyms
How Hateful
- Formal
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8.2
116
3.6
- Offensive
95
5.7
194
4.6
- Offensive
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4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hateful comes from the simple word hate and the ending -ful, which means 'full of' or 'causing'. So hateful is 'full of hate' or something that makes others feel strong dislike.