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hateful

adj
/ˈheɪtfəl/

Etymology

From Middle English hateful. By surface analysis, hate + -ful.

  1. inherited from hateful

Definitions

  1. Evoking a feeling of hatred.

    • 1935, Somerset Maugham, "The Voice of the Turtle." « She was hateful, of course, but she was irresistible. »

  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; […]

  3. Full of hatred.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Bigoted.

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Derived

hatefully, hatefulness, self-hateful, unhateful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hateful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01hateful02hatred03aversion04turning05foul06loathsome07abominable

A definitional loop anchored at hateful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at hateful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA