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# hateful

«hateful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very unpleasant and deserving to be hated: «a hateful…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (hateful, more hateful, most hateful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very unpleasant and deserving to be hated: «a hateful thing to say». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#m1)

2) Full of hate, showing hate towards others: «hateful messages». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#m2)

3) (informal, old-fashioned) Horrible, nasty: «this hateful rain». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In ethics and online safety lessons hateful comments are unkind words meant to hurt people because of who they are; pupils learn to report them. In stories a hateful villain is cruel. Phrases: «hateful words», «hateful comments», «a hateful person».

### examples

- Calling him names was a hateful thing to do. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#x1)
- The website removes hateful comments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#x2)
- The villain in the play was truly hateful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#x3)
- She regretted her hateful words and said sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#x4)
- If you see hateful messages online, tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#x5)
- What a hateful, rainy day! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#x6)
- The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/#x7)

### note

Spelled with one l at the end. Similar: horrible, nasty, spiteful. Related: hate, hatred (noun). Strong word.

### In the corpora

- [Hateful comments about someone's skin colour or religion should be reported; silence lets hate spread.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/481-blocking-muting-and-walking-away/30/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hateful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hateful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.