SPITE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SPITE?

Need another word that means the same as “spite”? Find 35 synonyms and 30 related words for “spite” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Spite” are: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, venom, ill will, ill feeling, bitterness, animosity, hostility, antagonism, enmity, resentment, rancour, malevolence, spleen, gall, malignance, malignity, evil intentions, envy, hate, hatred, vengeance, vengefulness, vindictiveness, bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound, upset, distress

Spite as a Noun

Definitions of "Spite" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “spite” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty.
• A desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone.
• A grudge.
• Feeling a need to see others suffer.

Synonyms of "Spite" as a noun (28 Words)

animosity	Strong hostility. He no longer felt any animosity towards her.
antagonism	An actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility. The antagonism between them.
bitchiness	Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty.
bitterness	Sharpness of taste; lack of sweetness. He expressed bitterness over his dismissal without notice.
cattiness	Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty.
enmity	A state of deep-seated ill-will. Decades of enmity between the two countries.
envy	A person or thing that inspires envy. She felt a twinge of envy for the people on board.
evil intentions	Morally objectionable behavior.
gall	The contents of the gall bladder bile proverbial for its bitterness. Accept life s gall without blaming somebody else.
hate	An intensely disliked person or thing. Feelings of hate and revenge.
hatred	Intense dislike; hate. Racial hatred.
hostility	The feeling of a hostile person. He could no longer contain his hostility.
ill feeling	An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.
ill will	An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining.
malevolence	The quality of threatening evil. His eyes were glowing with malevolence.
malice	Wrongful intention, especially as increasing the guilt of certain offences. I bear no malice towards anybody.
maliciousness	Feeling a need to see others suffer.
malignance	The quality of being malign. A spirit of pure unadulterated malignance towards the world.
malignity	Wishing evil to others.
nastiness	The state or quality of being nasty. I flinched at the nastiness of his wound.
rancour	A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. He spoke without rancour.
resentment	A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. His resentment at being demoted.
spitefulness	Feeling a need to see others suffer.
spleen	A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses. He could vent his spleen on the institutions which had duped him.
vengeance	Punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong. For vengeance I would do nothing This nation is too great to look for mere revenge.
vengefulness	A malevolent desire for revenge.
venom	A poisonous substance secreted by animals such as snakes, spiders, and scorpions and typically injected into prey or aggressors by biting or stinging. Her true venom seems reserved for the media itself.
vindictiveness	A malevolent desire for revenge.

Usage Examples of "Spite" as a noun

• It seemed as if the wind had a spite at her.
• He'd think I was saying it out of spite.

Spite as a Verb

Definitions of "Spite" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “spite” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Hurt the feelings of.
• Deliberately hurt, annoy, or offend (someone.

Synonyms of "Spite" as a verb (7 Words)

bruise	Cause a bruise or bruises to appear on a fruit vegetable or plant. I will admit that my pride was bruised by his comment.
distress	Bring into difficulties or distress especially financial hardship. The manner in which leather jackets are industrially distressed.
hurt	Hurt the feelings of. Were you hurting after the accident.
injure	Do injustice or wrong to (someone). A libel calculated to injure the company s reputation.
offend	Cause to feel resentment or indignation. 17 per cent of viewers said they had been offended by bad language.
upset	Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly. This book upset me.
wound	Inflict a wound on. You really wounded his pride when you turned him down.

Usage Examples of "Spite" as a verb

• He put the house up for sale to spite his family.

Associations of "Spite" (30 Words)

acrimony	Bitterness or ill feeling. The AGM dissolved into acrimony.
animosity	Strong hostility. He no longer felt any animosity towards her.
avenge	Inflict harm in return for an injury or wrong on behalf of (oneself or another. We must avenge our dead.
enmity	The feeling of a hostile person. Decades of enmity between the two countries.
feud	Carry out a feud. A savage feud over drugs money.
gloat	An act of gloating. His enemies gloated over his death.
grievance	A feeling of resentment over something believed to be wrong or unfair. He was nursing a grievance.
grudge	Bear a grudge harbor ill feelings. Holding a grudge.
hatred	The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action. His murderous hatred of his brother.
malevolence	The state or condition of being malevolent; hostility. His eyes were glowing with malevolence.
malice	Wrongful intention, especially as increasing the guilt of certain offences. I bear no malice towards anybody.
maliciousness	Feeling a need to see others suffer.
mischief	The quality or nature of being harmful or evil. She was bent on making mischief.
rancor	A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will.
rancour	A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. He spoke without rancour.
reprisal	An act of retaliation. Three youths died in the reprisals which followed.
requital	A justly deserved penalty.
resentment	Bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly. His resentment at being demoted.
retaliate	Take revenge for a perceived wrong. They used their abilities to retaliate the injury.
retaliation	The action of returning a military attack; counter-attack. The bombings are believed to be in retaliation for the trial of 15 suspects.
retribution	The act of correcting for your wrongdoing. Divine retribution.
revenge	Inflict revenge on behalf of someone else. Zimbabwe snatched the game 18 16 but the Spanish had their revenge later.
swear	An offensive word used especially to express anger a swear word. They were reluctant to swear allegiance.
vendetta	A blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer’s family. He has accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him.
vengeance	The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life–Romans 12:19. He swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him.
vengeful	Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge- Shakespeare- M.R.Cohen. A vengeful ex con.
venom	Extreme malice and bitterness shown in someone’s attitudes, speech, or actions. Her true venom seems reserved for the media itself.
vindictive	Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite. The criticism was both vindictive and personalized.
wickedness	Estrangement from god. The wickedness of the regime.
wreak	Cause (a large amount of damage or harm. The environmental damage wreaked by ninety years of phosphate mining.