cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness
(noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom
(noun) feeling a need to see others suffer
hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
(verb) hurt the feelings of; “She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests”; “This remark really bruised my ego”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
spite (usually uncountable, plural spites)
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice
Synonyms: grudge, rancor.
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
spite (third-person singular simple present spites, present participle spiting, simple past and past participle spited)
(transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
(transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
spite
Notwithstanding; despite.
• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, stipe
Source: Wiktionary
Spite, n. Etym: [Abbreviated fr. despite.]
1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak.
2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. [R.] Shak. In spite of, or Spite of, in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding. "Continuing, spite of pain, to use a knee after it had been slightly ibnjured." H. Spenser. "And saved me in spite of the world, the devil, and myself." South. "In spite of all applications, the patient grew worse every day." Arbuthnot. See Syn. under Notwithstanding.
– To owe one a spite, to entertain a mean hatred for him.
Syn.
– Pique, rancor; malevolence; grudge.
– Spite, Malice. Malice has more reference to the disposition, and spite to the manifestation of it in words and actions. It is, therefore, meaner than malice, thought not always more criminal. " Malice . . . is more frequently employed to express the dispositions of inferior minds to execute every purpose of mischief within the more limited circle of their abilities." Cogan. "Consider eke, that spite availeth naught." Wyatt. See Pique.
Spite, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spited; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiting.]
1. To be angry at; to hate. [Obs.] The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion. Fuller.
2. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
3. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. [R.] Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language. Sir. W. Temple.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
