• enPR: spīt, IPA: /spaɪt/

spite (uncountable)

1. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice

   Synonyms: grudge, rancor.

   He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.

   They did it just for spite.

   • 2014, Emivita, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil

     sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     This is the deadly spite that angers.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 7, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.

2. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v]:

     "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite."

• French: dépit, rancune
• German: Boshaftigkeit, Gehässigkeit
• Italian: rancore, malevolenza
• Portuguese: desprezo, rancor
• Russian: недоброжелательность
• Spanish: despecho, rencor, malicia, ojeriza

• French: dépit
• Italian: dispetto

spite (spites, present participle spiting; past and past participle spited)

1. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

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

2. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.

   • The Danes, then […] pagans, spited places of religion.

3. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

   • Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language.

• spiteful
• in spite of
• despite

• German: trotzen
• Italian: vessare
• Portuguese: provocar
• Russian: насолить

• Portuguese: desprezar
• Russian: ненавидеть

• Russian: злить

1. Notwithstanding; despite.