hateful
adjective
hate·ful ˈhāt-fəl 
1
: full of hate : malicious
2
: deserving of or arousing hate
hatefully
ˈhāt-fə-lē
adverb hatefulness noun
Synonyms
- bad [slang]
- bitchy
- catty
- cruel
- despiteful
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- nasty
- spiteful
- vicious
- virulent
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
the girl's classmates were bullying her online, sending her hateful e-mails and text messages
Recent Examples on the Web Tate, who is 35, has repeatedly made hateful and occasionally violent comments about women. 
Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Aug. 2022 Signs hanging outside the construction site of a future LGBTQ-friendly senior housing development in Hyde Park were vandalized with hateful and homophobic messages overnight, officials said Sunday. Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022 We will not be made to tuck our Pride flags away because hateful and ignorant people have been given the pulpit. Richard Galant, CNN, 5 June 2022 Chang shows me several hateful and violent screeds that attempt to tie it all together, including this gem. Jeffrey M. O'brien, Fortune, 2 June 2022 Twitter already has a tremendous problem with the scale of hateful and abusive and violent speech on the platform, especially speech directed at women and Black and Brown communities. Washington Post, 6 May 2022 Being weak doesn't mean someone has to be hateful and horrible. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2022 For more than eight and a half years, Oregon unaffiliated gubernatorial candidate and former longtime lawmaker Betsy Johnson employed a woman as a legislative staffer who repeatedly voiced hateful views online toward Black, Muslim and LGBTQ people. oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022 The statement was called hateful, discriminatory, insulting and ignorant by San Francisco supervisors, the Chronicle reported. Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 See More
Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Aug. 2022 Signs hanging outside the construction site of a future LGBTQ-friendly senior housing development in Hyde Park were vandalized with hateful and homophobic messages overnight, officials said Sunday. Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022 We will not be made to tuck our Pride flags away because hateful and ignorant people have been given the pulpit. Richard Galant, CNN, 5 June 2022 Chang shows me several hateful and violent screeds that attempt to tie it all together, including this gem. Jeffrey M. O'brien, Fortune, 2 June 2022 Twitter already has a tremendous problem with the scale of hateful and abusive and violent speech on the platform, especially speech directed at women and Black and Brown communities. Washington Post, 6 May 2022 Being weak doesn't mean someone has to be hateful and horrible. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2022 For more than eight and a half years, Oregon unaffiliated gubernatorial candidate and former longtime lawmaker Betsy Johnson employed a woman as a legislative staffer who repeatedly voiced hateful views online toward Black, Muslim and LGBTQ people. oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022 The statement was called hateful, discriminatory, insulting and ignorant by San Francisco supervisors, the Chronicle reported. Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from hate hate entry 1 + -ful -ful entry 1
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Kids Definition
hateful
adjective
hate·ful ˈhāt-fəl
1
: full of hate
"Then you get her out of here," he said with hateful force. Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry2
: very bad or evil : causing or deserving hate
a hateful crime
hatefully
adverb
as in despitefully
in a mean or spiteful manner many voters were turned off by the way the candidate hatefully dredged up his opponent's marital troubles Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- despitefully
- villainously
- maliciously
- spitefully
- bitterly
- viciously
- malevolently
- nastily
- virulently
- malignantly
- wickedly
- venomously
- hostilely
- bitchily
- disdainfully
- cattily
- disagreeably
- contemptuously
- resentfully
- obnoxiously
- vindictively
- vituperatively
- scornfully
- meanly
- antagonistically
- caustically
- cruelly
- invidiously
- callously
- unfeelingly
- unkindly
- enviously
- heartlessly
- pitilessly
- jealously
- ruthlessly
- mercilessly
- balefully
- insensitively
- inhumanely
- ungraciously
- acrimoniously
- rancorously
- diabolically
- soullessly
- fiendishly
- deprecatingly
- envyingly
- ill
- felly
- thoughtlessly
- hard-heartedly
- inconsiderately
- evil-mindedly
- caddishly
- kindlessly
- misanthropically
- ill-naturedly
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- kindly
- benevolently
- pleasantly
- graciously
- benignantly
- amiably
- genially
- affably
- agreeably
- cordially
- lovingly
- thoughtfully
- nicely
- considerately
- compassionately
- feelingly
- soulfully
- sympathetically
- humanely
- altruistically
- sensitively
- solicitously
- mercifully
- sweetly
- kindheartedly
- good-heartedly
- gently
- tenderly
- good-humoredly
- good-naturedly
- angelically
- divinely
- softheartedly
- dessus
- dest
- destabilisation
- destabilise
- destabilised
- destabilises
- destabilising
- destabilization
- destabilizations
- destabilize
- destabilized
- destabilizes
- destabilizing
- destain
- destained
- destaining
- destains
- destearinate
- desterilise
- desterilize
- desterilized
- desterilizes
- desterilizing
- destigmatisation
- destigmatization