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HATEFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evoking or deserving hatred
Example:
no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude
Classified under:
Similar:
abominable; detestable; execrable; odious (unequivocally detestable)
unlovable (incapable of inspiring love or affection)
Also:
undesirable; unwanted (not wanted)
hostile (characterized by enmity or ill will)
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Antonym:
lovable (having characteristics that attract love or affection)
Derivation:
hatefulness (the quality of being hateful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by malice
Example:
in a mean mood
Synonyms:
hateful; mean
Classified under:
Similar:
awful; nasty (offensive or even (of persons) malicious)
Derivation:
hatefulness (the quality of being hateful)
Context examples:
The disguise, equivocation, mystery, so hateful to her to practise, might soon be over.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The next morning brought another short note from Marianne—still affectionate, open, artless, confiding—everything that could make MY conduct most hateful.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Impatient to get rid of those hateful evidences of her folly, those detestable papers then scattered over the bed, she rose directly, and folding them up as nearly as possible in the same shape as before, returned them to the same spot within the cabinet, with a very hearty wish that no untoward accident might ever bring them forward again, to disgrace her even with herself.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
If I be sane, then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me; that to him alone I can look for safety, even though this be only whilst I can serve his purpose.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
His face flushed, his jaw set, and unconsciously his hand clenched, unclenched, and clenched again as if he were taking fresh grips upon some hateful thing out of which he was squeezing the life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Let me pause for a minute to look out over the sea sparkling in the sun, or to gaze at a sailor going aloft to the gaff-topsails, or running out the bowsprit, and I am sure to hear the hateful voice, ’Ere, you, ’Ump, no sodgerin’.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I should fear even to cross his path now: my view must be hateful to him.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her husband developed some hateful qualities; or shall we say that he contracted some loathsome disease, and became a leper or an imbecile?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I never saw a circle of such hateful faces; and there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black sneering coolness—frightened too, I could see that—but carrying it off, sir, really like Satan. ‘If you choose to make capital out of this accident,’ said he, ‘I am naturally helpless.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
