Word Meanings - DISPITEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless. Spenser. -- Dis*pit"e*ous*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to DISPITEOUS)

• CRUEL
  See CREWEL
• CRUELS
  Glandular scrofulous swellings in the neck.
• CRUELLY
  1. In a cruel manner. 2. Extremly; very. Spectator.
• DESPITEFUL
  Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious. -- De*spite"ful*ly, adv. -- De*spite"ful*ness, n. Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Rom. i. 30. Pray for them which despitefully use you. Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him
• CRUELNESS
  Cruelty. Spenser.
• DESPITE
  1. Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate. With all thy despite against the land of Israel. Ezek. xxv. 6. 2. An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt. A despite done against the Most
• CRUELTY
  1. The attribute or quality of being cruel; a disposition to give unnecessary pain or suffering to others; inhumanity; barbarity. Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty. Shak. 2. A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act
• SPITEFUL
  Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act. Shak. -- Spite"ful*ly, adv. Spite"ful*ness, n.
• DESPITEOUS
  Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. "Despiteous reproaches." Holland.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DESPITEOUSLY
  Despitefully.
• PITILESS
  1. Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements. 2. Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition. -- Pit"i*less*ly, adv. -- Pit"i*less*ness, n.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.