Adjective: hateful
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | hatefuller |
| Superlative | hatefullest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hateful |
| Superlative | most hateful |
Sample Sentences
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Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […] [1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:]
Adjectives inflected like hateful
sinful,
painful,
playful,
mournful,
mirthful,
healthful,
awful,
yuriful,
hateful,
harmful,
useful,
joyful,
grateful,
Etymology
From Middle English hateful. By surface analysis, hate + -ful.