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despitous

despitous is the obsolete form of despiteous.

Meaning of despiteous

Adjective

despiteous (comparative more despiteous, superlative most despiteous)

  1. Full of contempt or ill will; opprobrious; insulting.
  2. Dispiteous.

Forms of despitous

comparativemore despitous
superlativemost despitous

Questions about despitous

What is despitous the obsolete form of?
Despitous is the obsolete form of despiteous.

Words near despitous in the dictionary

  1. despitefulness
  2. despiteous
  3. despiteously
  4. despites
  5. despiting
  6. despitous
  7. despo
  8. despoil
  9. despoilable
  10. despoilation
  11. despoilations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: despitous (page history and authors); despiteous (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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