spite
Plural: spites
Noun
- feeling a need to see others suffer
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- 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
- Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
Verb
Verb Forms: spited, spiting, spites
- To deliberately annoy, harm, or offend someone.
- hurt the feelings of
- To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
- To be angry at; to hate.
- To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Prep
- Notwithstanding; despite.
Examples
- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- She tried to SPITE her opponent by placing a word that blocked a valuable bonus square.
- They did it just for spite.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
bitchiness, bruise, cattiness, hurt, injure, malice, maliciousness, nastiness, offend, spitefulness, venom, wound, grudge, rancor
Scrabble Score: 7
spite: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordspite: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
spite: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary