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
First recorded before 900; Middle English hat(i)en,Old English hatian (verb); 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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synonym study for hate
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.
hatching, hatchling, hatchment, hatchway, hat dance, hate, hateable, hate crime, hateful, hate-listen, hate mail
Definition for hate (2 of 2)
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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