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hatefull

hatefull is the obsolete form of hateful.

Meaning of hateful

Adjective

hateful (comparative hatefuller or more hateful, superlative hatefullest or most hateful)

  1. Evoking a feeling of hatred.
    Synonyms:
    odious
  2. Dislikeable.
    • Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4
  3. Full of hatred.
  4. (metonymically) Bigoted.

Forms of hatefull

comparativemore hatefull
superlativemost hatefull

Questions about hatefull

What is hatefull the obsolete form of?
Hatefull is the obsolete form of hateful.

Words near hatefull in the dictionary

  1. hatefuck
  2. hatefucked
  3. hatefucking
  4. hatefucks
  5. hateful
  6. hatefull
  7. hatefuller
  8. hatefullest
  9. hatefully
  10. hatefulness
  11. hatefulnesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatefull (page history and authors); hateful (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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