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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
hateful

	Hateful \Hate"ful\ (-f[.u]l), a.
   1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.
      [Archaic or R.]
      [1913 Webster]

            And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes
            His rival's conquest.                 --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust;
      odious.
      [1913 Webster]

            Unhappy, wretched, hateful day!       --Shak.

   Syn: Odious; detestable; abominable; execrable; loathsome;
        abhorrent; repugnant; malevolent. -- Hate"ful*ly, adv.
        -- Hate"ful*ness, n.
        [1913 Webster]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
hateful

	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]

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
hateful

	125 Moby Thesaurus words for "hateful":
   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

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