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| Main Entry: | spite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful feeling |
| Synonyms: | animosity, antipathy, bad blood*, contempt, despite, enmity, gall, grudge, hate, hatred, ill will, malevolence, malice, peeve, pique, rancor, resentment, revenge, spleen, umbrage, vengeance, venom, harsh feeling, maliciousness, malignity, spitefulness, vengefulness, vindictiveness |
| Antonyms: | liking, love, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offend, hurt |
| Synonyms: | annoy, begrudge, beset, discomfit, gall, get even*, grudge, harass, harm, injure, needle, nettle, persecute, pique, provoke, put out*, vex, crab, cramp style, hang up*, louse up, upset the apple cart |
| Antonyms: | forgive, help, love, please |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acrimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nasty behavior, speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, animosity, antipathy, asperity, bitterness, harshness, ill will, malevolence, malice, peevishness, rancor, rudeness, sarcasm, spite, tartness, astringency, belligerence, churlishness, crankiness, irascibility, mordancy, unkindness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | civility, courtesy, diplomacy, flattery, kindness, politeness, sweetness |
| Main Entry: | backbiting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hateful talk |
| Synonyms: | abuse, aspersion, calumny, defamation, depreciation, detraction, disparagement, gossip, invective, lie, malice, obloquy, scandal, slander, spite, tale, vituperation, backstabbing, belittlement, calumniation, cattiness, denigration, spitefulness, traducement, vilification |
| Antonyms: | encouragement, praise |
| Main Entry: | cruelty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brutality, harshness |
| Synonyms: | barbarism, barbarity, coarseness, depravity, despotism, ferocity, inhumanity, insensibility, malice, persecution, rancor, sadism, severity, spite, torture, venom, wickedness, animality, bestiality, bloodthirstiness, brutishness, callousness, coldness, fiendishness, fierceness, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, insensitiveness, malignity, masochism, mercilessness, murderousness, ruthlessness, savageness, savagery, spitefulness, truculence, unfeelingness, unkindness, viciousness |
| Antonyms: | charity, compassion, consideration, feeling, gentility, kindness, mercy, niceness, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | defiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience, disregard |
| Synonyms: | affront, audacity, back talk*, big talk*, boldness, bravado, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, dare, defy, effrontery, gas*, guts*, hot air*, impudence, insolence, insubordination, lip*, muster*, opposition, order, provocation, rebellion, revolt, sass*, spite, stump, summons, temerity, brazenness, contrariness, contumacy, enjoinder, factiousness, impugnment, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, perversity, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
| Antonyms: | acquiescence, obedience, regard, respect, submission, subordination |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enmity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hatred, animosity |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, alienation, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood*, bitterness, detestation, dislike, hate, hostility, ill will, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignancy, rancor, spite, spleen, venom, daggers, malignity, uncordiality, unfriendliness |
| Antonyms: | affinity, fellowship, friendship, good will, kindness, love |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | envy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jealousy |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, covetousness, evil eye*, green-eyed monster*, grudge, hatred, heartburn, ill will, malevolence, malice, opposition, prejudice, resentment, rivalry, spite, coveting, enviousness, grudging, grudgingness, invidiousness, jaundiced eye, lusting, maliciousness, malignity, resentfulness |
| Notes: | jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person |
| Antonyms: | comfort, confidence, good will, kindness, pleasure, contentedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, brashness |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animosity, arrogance, bitterness, brass, cheek*, chutzpah*, conceit, confidence, effrontery, guts*, haughtiness, hostility, impertinence, impudence, insolence, malevolence, malice, pomposity, presumption, rancor, self-importance, spite, venom, brazenness, crust cynicism, overbearance, sauciness |
| Antonyms: | modesty, shyness, reservations |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grudge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard feelings |
| Synonyms: | animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood*, bitterness, dislike, enmity, grievance, hate, hatred, ill will, injury, injustice, malevolence, malice, malignancy, peeve, pet peeve*, pique, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, venom, bone to pick, maliciousness, spitefulness |
| Antonyms: | favor, forgiveness, good will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bête noire*, bother, bugbear*, detestation, disgust, enmity, execration, frost*, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, trouble, venom, black beast, malignity, mislike, nasty look, no love lost |
| Antonyms: | liking, love, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hatred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, acrimony, alienation, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, contempt, detestation, disapproval, disfavor, disgust, displeasure, distaste, enmity, envy, execration, grudge, hard feelings, hate, horror, hostility, ignominy, ill will, loathing, malevolence, malice, odium, pique, prejudice, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, spleen, venom, allergy to, coldness, invidiousness, malignance, militancy, no use for |
| Antonyms: | like, liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | hostility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | antagonism, meanness |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, aggression, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood*, bitterness, detestation, disaffection, enmity, estrangement, grudge, hatred, ill will, malevolence, malice, opposition, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, venom, war, bellicosity, belligerence, inimicality, unfriendliness, virulence, warpath |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, niceness, agreeableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitter feeling |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood*, bad blood, bitterness, blame, despite, dislike, enmity, envy, feud, grudge, hard feelings, hate, hatred, hostility, malevolence, malice, objection, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, venom, bad will, hatred; hard feelings, maliciousness, no love lost, no love lost, spitefulness, unfriendliness |
| Antonyms: | friendliness, friendship, good will, liking, loving, good feelings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jealousy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | envy |
| Synonyms: | backbiting, covetousness, evil eye*, green-eyed monster*, grudge, resentment, spite, begrudging, enviousness, grudgingness, jaundiced eye, resentfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate, vengefulness |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, animosity, animus, antipathy, bad blood, bane, bitterness, despite, dirt, dislike, down, enmity, evil, grudge, hatred, hostility, ill will, malevolence, meanness, poison, rancor, repugnance, resentment, spite, spleen, umbrage, venom, bile, despitefulness, hatefulness, implacability, maliciousness, malignance, malignity, mordacity, spitefulness, viciousness, vindictiveness |
| Antonyms: | benevolence, friendliness, kindness, like, sympathy, thoughtfulness |
| Main Entry: | rancor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitterness, hatefulness |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood*, dudgeon, enmity, grudge, harshness, hate, hatred, hostility, ill will, malevolence, malice, pique, resentment, retaliation, spite, spleen, umbrage, variance, vengeance, venom, bile, hardness of heart, ill feeling, malignity, mordacity, resentfulness, revengefulness, ruthlessness, spitefulness, uncharitableness, unfriendliness, vengefulness, vindictiveness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | kindness, love, respect, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | resentment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hate, anger |
| Synonyms: | acerbity, acrimony, animosity, animus, annoyance, antagonism, bitterness, choler, cynicism, displeasure, dudgeon, exacerbation, exasperation, fog, fury, grudge, huff, hurt, ill will, indignation, ire, irritation, malice, miff, offense, outrage, passion, perturbation, pique, rage, rancor, rise, spite, umbrage, vehemence, vexation, wrath, bad feeling, ill feeling, malignity |
| Antonyms: | affection, happiness, liking, love, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | venom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | poison; hating |
| Synonyms: | acidity, acrimony, anger, bane, bitterness, contagion, gall, grudge, hate, hatred, ill will, infection, malevolence, malice, rancor, spite, spleen, taint, toxin, virus, maliciousness, malignity, spitefulness, virulence |
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense, sin |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bias, blunder, crime, cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, error, evil, faux pas, favor, foul play, grievance, harm, hurt, imposition, indecency, inequity, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, injustice, insult, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdeed, misdemeanor, mistake, oppression, persecution, prejudice, slander, slight, spite, transgression, trespass, turpitude, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrongdoing, bad deed, immorality, misdoing, sinfulness, tort, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | goodness, kindness, right, virtue |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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