spite

Meanings

Noun

• 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
• Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

Verb

• To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
• To be angry at; to hate.
• To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Origin

• From a shortening of Middle English despit, from Old French despit (whence despite), from Latin dēspectum ("looking down on"), from Latin dēspiciō ("to look down, despise"). Compare also Dutch spijt.