hate

[heyt]

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verb (used with object), hat·ed, hat·ing.

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.

verb (used without object), hat·ed, hat·ing.

to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.

noun

intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.

the object of extreme aversion or hostility.

adjective

noting or relating to acts that are motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance: a hate crime; a hate group; hate mail.

Verb Phrases

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

before 900; Middle English hat(i)en, Old English hatian (v.); cognate with Dutch haten, Old Norse hata, Gothic hatan, German hassen

Related formshat·er, nounself-hate, nounun·hat·ed, adjectiveun·hat·ing, adjectiveun·hat·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms for hate

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1. loathe, execrate; despise.

Synonym study

1. Hate, abhor, detest, abominate imply feeling intense dislike or aversion toward something. Hate, the simple and general word, suggests passionate dislike and a feeling of enmity: to hate autocracy. Abhor expresses a deep-rooted horror and a sense of repugnance or complete rejection: to abhor cruelty; Nature abhors a vacuum. Detest implies intense, even vehement, dislike and antipathy, besides a sense of disdain: to detest a combination of ignorance and arrogance. Abominate expresses a strong feeling of disgust and repulsion toward something thought of as unworthy, unlucky, or the like: to abominate treachery.

Antonyms for hate

1. love.

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.

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Related Words for hate

pain, antagonism, enmity, hostility, revenge, resentment, venom, horror, animosity, rancor, loathing, hatred, despise, scorn, detest, shun, abhor, loathe, grievance, abomination

Examples 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.
Choking Back Tears, Thousands of Cops Honor Fallen Officer Ramos
Michael Daly
December 28, 2014
In the mindset of the Coexist camp, those abstract beliefs have become twisted things, wrapped up with hate.
COEXIST’s Bonehead Bumper-Sticker Politics
Michael Schulson
December 21, 2014
Because all you guys do is talk about how you hate this person because of that.
Jamie Foxx: Get Over the Black ‘Annie’
Stereo Williams
December 20, 2014
And even today there are despicable instances of hate crimes versus Jews in our country.
Muslims & Jews Unite vs. Abercrombie & Fitch
Dean Obeidallah
December 16, 2014
To not give in to profiteers, paid-off politicians and an extreme minority who hate its government and way of life.
The Gun Battle Since Newtown
Cliff Schecter
December 14, 2014

Historical Examples of hate

But no doubt the gang had thought caution to be the better part of hate.
Way of the Lawless
Max Brand
He would only go away as soon as he had had enough of it, and hate him all the same!
Weighed and Wanting
George MacDonald
For the moment at least, the man is open to influences from another source than his hate.
Weighed and Wanting
George MacDonald
You are right; I do not feel the smallest inclination to hate him.
Weighed and Wanting
George MacDonald
Folks say I'm prejudiced against em; but it isn't so—I hate 'em.
Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870
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British Dictionary definitions for hate

hate

verb

to dislike (something) intensely; detest

(intr) to be unwilling (to be or do something)

noun

intense dislike

informal a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate)

(modifier) expressing or arousing feelings of hatredhate mail

Derived Formshateable or hatable, adjective

Word Origin for hate

Old English hatian; related to Old Norse hata, Old Saxon hatōn, Old High German hazzēn

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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