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hateful, a.|ˈheɪtfʊl|
[f. hate n.1 + -ful.]
1. Full of hate, cherishing hatred, malignant.
c1340Cursor M. 23750 (Trin.) Þe world hateful & couetous. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 82 Enuyus pepul, sclaunderers, hateful peple. 1530Palsgr. 314/2 Hatefull, full of hatred, hayneux. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, ii. iv. 23 Ah Gloster, hide thee from their hatefull lookes. a1618Sylvester Maidens Blush 209 When from a Hill, his hatefull Brethren spi'd Him yet far-off. 1712Pope Messiah 58 Nor ardent warriours meet with hateful eyes. 1890Univ. Rev. 15 June 231 Impiteous And hateful are the gods, and void of ruth.
2. Exciting hate; odious, obnoxious, repulsive.
1382Wyclif Rev. xviii. 2 The keping of ech vnclene foul, and haatful [odibilis]. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxviii. (1495) 430 Theyr crye is hatfull and odiouse to other byrdes. c1440York Myst. xxxii. 71 Youre aunsweres is hedouse and hatefull to here. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 55 My name deare Saint, is hatefull to my selfe. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 264 These Acts of hateful strife, hateful to all. 1772Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) I. 113 No vice is universally so hateful as ingratitude. 1855Maurice Learn. & Work. 285 That mother herself who had drawn him into the hatefullest crimes.
b. as n. A hateful thing. nonce-use.
1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) III. 110 A remove from the Grange, the Hall, and all the hatefuls belonging to each of them. |