spite

spite is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
2. noun. Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
3. transitive verb. To be angry at; to hate.
4. transitive verb. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
5. transitive verb. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
6. noun. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

   Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness

7. noun. feeling a need to see others suffer

   Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom

8. verb. hurt the feelings of

   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"

   "This remark really bruised my ego"

   Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound

Synonyms

bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, venom, bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spite:

epist, piest, piste, septi, stipe

Common word forms

spited, spites, spiting, spiteful, spiteless

Words from these letters

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