spite

1. 1.

   hurt the feelings of

   “She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests”

   “This remark really bruised my ego”

   Synonymshurtwoundinjurebruiseoffend

   Broaderarouse

   Narrowerdisslaceratestinghumiliate

Other forms of spite

plural

spites·

past tense

spited·

present participle

spiting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spite

What does spite mean?

spite means "feeling a need to see others suffer". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spite?

spite has 1 syllable: spite. In IPA it is /ˈspaɪt/.

What is another word for spite?

Close synonyms include malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom, cattiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spite a common word?

spite is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with spite?

1 word rhymes with spite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.