🇬🇧🇨🇳 hateful - 可恶 : English Lesson

Meaning of "hateful" ("可恶"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Hateful means very mean, cruel, or full of strong anger, like when someone tries to hurt people’s feelings on purpose instead of being kind or fair.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

Our baby’s hateful scream could probably break glass or at least scare away three neighborhoods of pigeons.

The most hateful thing about homework is how it jumps out of your backpack right when you think you’re free.

The villain’s hateful plan was to replace all school holidays with surprise math tests.

The hateful alarm clock screams every morning like it personally hates my happiness.

Some hateful messages are now illegal in many places, because grown‑ups decided words shouldn’t be used as weapons.

On the bus, a hateful poster stared at Anna: a hateful face, large letters, angry colors. A hateful man beside it spat words and pulled his phone to show more hateful images. People turned away, small children crying. Anna tore the poster down, crumpled the hateful paper, and a quiet relief moved through the crowd.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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