Definitions for spite
spaɪtspite

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venomnoun

   feeling a need to see others suffer

2. cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastinessverb

   malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

3. hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spiteverb

   hurt the feelings of

   "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. spitenoun

   Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.

2. spitenoun

   Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

3. spiteverb

   To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

   She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.

4. spiteverb

   To be angry at; to hate.

   The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. uE000116154uE001 Fuller.

5. spite

   To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

   Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. uE000116155uE001 Sir. W. Temple.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Spitenoun

   ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite

2. Spitenoun

   vexation; chargrin; mortification

3. Spiteverb

   to be angry at; to hate

4. Spiteverb

   to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart

5. Spiteverb

   to fill with spite; to offend; to vex

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Spite

   In fair division problems, spite is a phenomenon that occurs when a player's value of an allocation decreases when one or more other players' valuation increases. Thus, other things being equal, a player exhibiting spite will prefer an allocation in which other players receive less than more. In this language, spite is difficult to analyze because one has to assess two sets of preferences. For example, in the divide and choose method, a spiteful player would have to make a trade-off between depriving his opponent of cake, and getting more himself. Within the field of social evolution, spite is used to describe those social behaviors that have a negative impact on both the actor and recipient. Spite can be favored by kin selection when: it leads to an indirect benefit to some third party that is sufficiently related to the actor; or when it is directed primarily at negatively related individuals. Negative relatedness occurs when two individuals are less related than average.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Spite

   spīt, n. grudge: lasting ill-will: hatred.—v.t. to vex: to thwart: to hate.—adj. Spite′ful, full of spite: desirous to vex or injure: malignant.—adv. Spite′fully.—n. Spite′fulness.—In spite of, in opposition to all efforts of, in defiance of, in contempt of. [Short for despite.]

Matched Categories

1. • Malevolence

Anagrams for spite »

1. Piets

2. Stipe

How to pronounce spite?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of spite in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of spite in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of spite in a Sentence

1. Helen Perry:

   [ I had ] 60 hours in a lovely cabin with a gorgeous view … best sick bed I've ever stayed in, i enjoyed Helen Perry enormously in spite of it.

2. Saoud Hamidi:

   I felt liberated, they made us wear it against our will so I removed it that way to spite them.

3. Kevin Hines:

   You’re not suffering, you’re thriving in spite of the pain

4. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   Spite is an underestimated quality in international relations, russia stood to gain basically nothing from playing the Kim Jong Un card. It was sort of a' screw you' policy.

5. Anuj Somany:

   A person who says his expertise lies in selling only a particular product, but for other products someone else of their team has the capability to makes sales; is actually playing office politics in spite of the management considering him consistently the star performer in the organisation.

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