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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS

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Noun, Verb (transitive)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun spite has 2 senses

spite(n = noun.feeling) malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom - feeling a need to see others suffer;

is a kind of malevolence, malignity

Derived form verb spite₁

spite(n = noun.attribute) bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness - malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty;

is a kind of malevolence, malevolency, malice

Derived form verb spite₁

Verb spite has 1 sense

spite(v = verb.emotion) bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

is one way to arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise

Derived forms noun spite₂, noun spite₁

Sample sentence:
Sam cannot spite Sue

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CIDE DICTIONARY

spite, n. [Abbreviated fr. despite.].

Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. [1913 Webster]
"This is the deadly spite that angers." [1913 Webster]
Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. [1913 Webster]

In spite of, or Spite of, in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. “Continuing, spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly injured.” H. Spenser. “And saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself.” South. “In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day.” Arbuthnot. See Syn. under Notwithstanding. -- To owe one a spite, to entertain a mean hatred for him.

Syn. -- Pique, rancor; malevolence; grudge.

spite, v. t.

To be angry at; to hate. [1913 Webster]
"The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion." [1913 Webster]
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. [1913 Webster]
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. [1913 Webster]
"Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

spite, n. & v.
--n.
1 ill will, malice towards a person (did it from spite).
2 a grudge.
--v.tr. thwart, mortify, annoy (does it to spite me).

Idiom

in spite of notwithstanding. in spite of oneself etc. though one would rather have done otherwise.

Etymology

ME f. OF despit DESPITE

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THESAURUS

spite

Anglophobia, Russophobia, Schadenfreude, abhorrence, abomination, animosity, annoy, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, aversion, belligerence, bigotry, bitchiness, bitterness, bone to pick, cattiness, clash, clashing, collision, conflict, contention, crow to pick, crow to pluck, despite, despitefulness, detestation, discomfit, disconcert, dislike, execration, friction, gall and wormwood, gloating pleasure, grudge, hate, hatred, hostility, hurt, ignoring, ill, ill will, in defiance of, in spite of, injure, irritate, loathing, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, needle, notwithstanding, odium, offend, peeve, pet peeve, pique, provoke, put out, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, rancor, regardless of, repugnance, resentment, spitefulness, spleen, unholy joy, upset, venom, vex, vials of hate, vials of wrath, vindictiveness, wound, xenophobia

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ROGET THESAURUS

spite

Malevolence

N malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.

Envy

N envy, enviousness, rivalry, jalousie de milier, illwill, spite, envious, invidious, covetous, alieni appetens, base envy withers at another's joy, caeca invidia est, multa petentibus desunt multa, summa petit livor.

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