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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English spytefulle, equivalent to spite + -ful.
Adjective
spiteful (comparative more spiteful or (rare) spitefuller, superlative most spiteful or (rare) spitefullest)
- Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.
- Synonyms: malignant, malicious
Translations
filled with spite
- Azerbaijani: kinli
- Belarusian: зло́сны (zlósny), зласлі́вы (zlaslívy)
- Bulgarian: зло́бен (bg) (zlóben), злостен (bg) (zlosten)
- Catalan: maliciós (ca), rancuniós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 刻毒 (zh) (kèdú)
- Danish: ondsindet, ondskabsfuld
- Dutch: hatelijk (nl), rancuneus (nl), onheus (nl)
- French: rancunier (fr)
- German: gehässig (de), boshaft (de)
- Irish: aiciseach, dúchroíoch
- Italian: dispettoso (it), vendicativo (it)
- Japanese: 悪意のある (あくいのある, akui no aru), 意地の悪い (いじのわるい, iji no warui), 意地悪な (ja) (いじわるな, ijiwaru na), 意地悪い (いじわるい, ijiwarui)
- Maori: waniwani, turatura, kaikino
- Polish: złośliwy (pl), robiący na złość, wredny (pl)
- Portuguese: malévolo (pt), danoso (pt), rancoroso (pt) m
- Romanian: malițios (ro), răutăcios (ro), ranchiunos (ro)
- Russian: зло́бный (ru) (zlóbnyj), злой (ru) (zloj), недоброжела́тельный (ru) (nedobroželátelʹnyj), зло́стный (ru) (zlóstnyj)
- Spanish: malévolo (es), rencoroso, venenoso (es)
- Swedish: illvillig (sv), ondskefull (sv)
- Ukrainian: зло́бний (zlóbnyj)
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Further reading
- “spiteful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “spiteful”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.