hate
- to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.
- to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it.
- to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.
- intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
- the object of extreme aversion or hostility.
- noting or relating to acts that are motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance: a hate crime; a hate group; hate mail.
- hate on, Informal. to show hate toward, criticize, or belittle, usually unfairly: Don't hate on him just because he wins all the time.
Origin of hate
Synonyms for hate
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Antonyms for hate
hate-
- a combining form describing something that one does but professes to dislike and that may indicate conflicting love/hate emotions, as in hate-read; hate-kiss; hate-sex.
Related Words for hate
pain, antagonism, enmity, hostility, revenge, resentment, venom, horror, animosity, rancor, loathing, hatred, despise, scorn, detest, shun, abhor, loathe, grievance, abominationExamples from the Web for hate
Contemporary Examples of hate
Everyone says they hate cops,” Jaden wrote, “but they are the people that they call for help.
In the mindset of the Coexist camp, those abstract beliefs have become twisted things, wrapped up with hate.
Because all you guys do is talk about how you hate this person because of that.
And even today there are despicable instances of hate crimes versus Jews in our country.
To not give in to profiteers, paid-off politicians and an extreme minority who hate its government and way of life.
Historical Examples of hate
But no doubt the gang had thought caution to be the better part of hate.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
He would only go away as soon as he had had enough of it, and hate him all the same!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
For the moment at least, the man is open to influences from another source than his hate.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
You are right; I do not feel the smallest inclination to hate him.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Folks say I'm prejudiced against em; but it isn't so—I hate 'em.
hate
- to dislike (something) intensely; detest
- (intr) to be unwilling (to be or do something)
- intense dislike
- informal a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate)
- (modifier) expressing or arousing feelings of hatredhate mail
Word Origin for hate
Word Origin and History for hate
Old English hatian "to hate," from Proto-Germanic *hatojanan (cf. Old Saxon haton, Old Norse hata, German hassen, Gothic hatan "to hate"), from PIE root *kad- "sorrow, hatred" (cf. Avestan sadra- "grief, sorrow, calamity," Greek kedos "care, trouble, sorrow," Welsh cas "pain, anger"). Related: Hated; hating. French haine (n.), hair (v.) are Germanic. Hate crime attested from 1988.
Old English hete "hatred, spite," from Proto-Germanic *hatis- (cf. Old Norse hattr, Old Frisian hat, Dutch haat, Old High German has, German Hass, Gothic hatis; see hate (v.)). Altered in Middle English to conform with the verb. Hate mail is first attested 1967.
Idioms and Phrases with hate
hate
In addition to the idiom beginning with hate
- hate someone's guts
also see:
- somebody up there loves (hates) me