hate

[ heyt ]

/ heɪt /

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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.

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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

SYNONYMS FOR hate

1. loathe, execrate; despise.

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ANTONYMS FOR hate

1. love.

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Related forms

hat·er, nounself-hate, nounun·hat·ed, adjectiveun·hat·ing, adjective

un·hat·ing·ly, adverb

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.

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Examples from the Web for hated

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Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”
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The source added that the staffers “hated” the bizarre alleged practice.
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Up to a point, Blanc had relished the title “most hated man in the world.”
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I had a couple bluntly tell me that they hated it here, with the silent expectation that I would too.
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He hated being shut up too, and showed amazing cleverness in escaping from prison.
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But she interrupted him impatiently, and said she hated and would have no mercy on you.
Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee and his Paladins|John Esten Cooke
Spending money on a farm is like other forms of vice,—hated, then tolerated, then embraced.
The Fat of the Land|John Williams Streeter
He had hated the smug, self-satisfied merchants of Grand Avenue.
The Mucker|Edgar Rice Burroughs
Yes, Betty hated it all because it was what she had always thirsted for.
The Branding Iron|Katharine Newlin Burt

British Dictionary definitions for hated

hate

/ (heɪt) /

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 hated

hate

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.

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.

Idioms and Phrases with hated

hate

In addition to the idiom beginning with hate

hate someone's guts

also see:

somebody up there loves (hates) me

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

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

noun

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