spite

名词 n. 动词 v. 介词 prep.
中文释义
发音 spīt

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice. uncountable,usually
    — He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
  2. Vexation; chagrin; mortification. obsolete,uncountable,usually
    — "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite."
动词 v.
  1. To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart. transitive
    — She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
  2. To be angry at; to hate. obsolete,transitive
    — The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.
  3. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. transitive
    — But the laſt and fatal Blow, given to that antient Learning, was in the time of Darius, Father of Xerxes, who with the reſt of the Perſians, ſpighted at the Magi, upon the Uſurpation of the Crown by one of their Number, (that counterfeited a younger Son of Cyrus after the Death of Cambyſes,) when he came to be ſetled in that Throne, endeavour'd to aboliſh, not only their Learning and Credit, but their Language too, by changing the old Aſſyrian Characters, and introducing thoſe of Perſia, which grew to be the common Uſe of that whole Empire.
介词 prep.
  1. Notwithstanding; despite.

词形变化

spites plural spight alternative,obsolete spites present,singular,third-person spiting participle,present spited participle,past spited past spight alternative,obsolete spight alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
Hamiltonian spite in spite of in spite of oneself in spite of someone's teeth spite fence spiteful spite house spiteless spitesome spite wall spitish cut off one's nose to spite one's face spiter unspited
相关词
malignant malicious

词源

From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also North Frisian spīt, spīd (“regret”), Saterland Frisian Spiet (“regret, remorse”), West Frisian spyt (“regret”), Dutch spijt (“regret, remorse”), German Low German Spiet (“anger, regret, remorse”), German Spiet (“annoyance, vexation”), Swedish spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”), Norwegian spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”).
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