Definitions of hateful

1. evoking or deserving hatred; " no vice is universally as hateful as ingratitude"- Joseph Priestly

2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious.

3. Causing or showing deep dislike, or abhorrence.

4. Exciting hate: odious: detestable: feeling or manifesting hate.

5. Exciting hate; odious.

6. Exciting hate; odious; full of hate.

7. Exciting hate; odious; detestable.