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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | bad-natured, baleful, catty, despiteful, dirty, evil, evil-minded, hellish, hostile, lousy, malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous, pernicious, poison, rancorous, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked |
| Notes: | while malevolent suggests deep and lasting dislike, malicious usually means petty and spiteful |
| Antonyms: | amiable, harmless, kind, liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | catty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, malicious |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, evil, hateful, ill-natured, malevolent, mean, rancorous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | cruel |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vicious, pitiless; causing pain |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, barbarous, bestial, bitter, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, degenerate, demoniac, depraved, evil, excruciating, ferocious, fierce, flinty, hard, hard-hearted, harsh, hateful, heartless, hellish, implacable, inexorable, inhuman, inhumane, malevolent, merciless, monstrous, painful, pernicious, poignant, rancorous, relentless, revengeful, ruthless, sadistic, sinful, spiteful, tyrannical, unfeeling, unkind, unnatural, unrelenting, vengeful, vicious, virulent, wicked |
| Antonyms: | charitable, compassionate, considerate, feeling, gentle, kind, merciful, sympathetic, thoughtful, uncruel |
| Main Entry: | derogatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | offensive, uncomplimentary |
| Synonyms: | aspersing, belittling, calumnious, censorious, contumelious, critical, damaging, decrying, defamatory, degrading, demeaning, deprecatory, depreciative, despiteful, detracting, disdainful, dishonoring, disparaging, fault-finding, humiliating, injurious, malevolent, malicious, maligning, minimizing, opprobrious, reproachful, sarcastic, scornful, slanderous, slighting, spiteful, unfavorable, unflattering, vilifying |
| Antonyms: | appreciative, complimentary, favorable, flattering, praising |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinful, immoral |
| Synonyms: | angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, no good, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, rancorous, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, hypocritical |
| Synonyms: | apostate, base, beguiling, canting, corrupt, crooked, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, devious, dishonorable, disloyal, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, falsehearted, forsworn, foul, lying, malevolent, malicious, mean, misleading, mythomaniac, perfidious, perjured, rascally, recreant, renegade, scoundrelly, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, two-faced, underhanded, unfaithful, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, villainous, wicked |
| Notes: | fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real |
| Antonyms: | genuine, honest, just, reliable, right, straight, true, truthful |
| Main Entry: | fierce |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | violent, menacing |
| Synonyms: | angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, flipped, frightening, furious, horrible, howling, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, tigerish, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening |
| Main Entry: | hateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, obnoxious |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, accursed, awful, bitter, blasted, catty, confounded, cursed, cussed, damnable, damned, despicable, despiteful, detestable, disgusting, evil, execrable, forbidding, foul, gross, heinous, horrid, infamous, invidious, loathsome, malevolent, malign, mean, odious, offensive, ornery*, pesky, pestiferous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, resentful, revolting, shuddersome, spiteful, uncool, undesirable, vicious, vile |
| Antonyms: | friendly, kind, likable, lovable, nice, pleasant, polite |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hostile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, mean |
| Synonyms: | adverse, alien, allergic, anti*, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty, chill*, cold*, competitive, contentious, contrary, disapproving, dour, hateful, ill-disposed, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, oppugnant, ornery*, pugnacious, rancorous, scrappy, sour*, spiteful, surly, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unsympathetic, unwelcoming, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike |
| Notes: | a hostel is inexpensive supervised lodging, while hostile means characterized by enmity or ill will or very unfriendly or antagonistic |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, nice, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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