spite

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice
2. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

Verb

1. To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
2. (obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
3. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Prep

Notwithstanding; despite.

Sinónimos

malice

hatred

grudge

animosity

anger

💢

envy

spitefulness

rancour

enmity

malevolence

jealousy

evil

harm

resentment

ill will

ill-will

hostility

rancor

injury

venom

feud

maliciousness

nastiness

offend

stubbornness

spleen

bitchiness

bitterness

pique

tease

bruise

wound

obstinacy

irritate

injure

acrimony

rage

😡

evil intention

hurt

ill-feeling

malignancy

look upon with hatred

annoy

fury

viciousness

gall

cattiness

naughtiness

nefariousness

opposition

orneriness

out of spite

outrage

peeve

persecute

pet

provoke

quarrel

rag

refractoriness

resent

ridicule

rile

rivalry

scorn

snub

spurn

tenacity

unrighteousness

venomousness

vex

vexation

vice

victimize

villainousness

vindictiveness

virulence

vitriol

wickedness

willfulness

wrath

in defiance

evil thought

hard feelings

no love lost

malicious motive

be rancor

harbour resentment

bad mind

amarulence

ranklement

resentiment

abomination

embitteredness

acerbity

acridity

acridness

aggravate

animus

antipathy

aversion

bad blood

badness

bile

bugbear

causticity

chafe

contemn

contumacy

dander

defiance

deride

despise

despite

devilry

deviltry

dislike

displeasure

dudgeon

embitterment

exacerbate

exasperate

fret

get

goad

gravel

hardheadedness

indignation

irk

jar

🫙

jealous

look down on

malevolent

malignant

malignity

miff

mischief

mock

murder

nark

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/spaɪt/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: spit

Relativo a neerlandés: spijt

Relativo a alemán: Spiet

In summary

From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt and German Spiet.