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despightfull

despightfull is the obsolete form of despiteful.

Meaning of despiteful

Adjective

despiteful (comparative more despiteful, superlative most despiteful)

  1. (archaic) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.
    • The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor; […]1841, John Foxe, The History of John Wickliffe, page 21

Forms of despightfull

comparativemore despightfull
superlativemost despightfull

Questions about despightfull

What is despightfull the obsolete form of?
Despightfull is the obsolete form of despiteful.

Words near despightfull in the dictionary

  1. despicably
  2. despiccable
  3. despiciency
  4. despight
  5. despightful
  6. despightfull
  7. despights
  8. despike
  9. despiked
  10. despiker
  11. despikers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: despightfull (page history and authors); despiteful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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