Sprite vs Spite - What's the difference?
sprite | spite |
(mythology) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition.
*1803 , William Blake,
*:He who torments the chafer's sprite
*:Weaves a bower in endless night.
(mythology) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
The green woodpecker, or yaffle.
(computer graphics) A two-dimensional image or animation that is integrated into a larger scene.
An electrical discharge that occurs high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm.
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
As nouns the difference between sprite and spite
is that sprite is a spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition while spite is ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.As a verb spite is
to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.As a preposition spite is
notwithstanding; despite.sprite
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Noun
(wikipedia sprite) (en noun)Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.