HATE

hate, hatred

(noun) the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

hate, detest

(verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; “I hate Mexican food”; “She detests politicians”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

hate (countable and uncountable, plural hates)

An object of hatred.

Hatred.

(Internet slang) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.

Verb

hate (third-person singular simple present hates, present participle hating, simple past and past participle hated)

(transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.

(intransitive) To experience hatred.

(informal, originally, African-American Vernacular) Used in phrasal verb: hate on.

Usage notes

• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See

Synonyms

• (to dislike intensely): See Thesaurus:hate

Antonyms

• (to dislike intensely): See Thesaurus:love

Anagrams

• HEAT, Thea, eath, haet, heat, heta

Source: Wiktionary

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Hate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hated; p. pr. & pr. & vb. n. Hating.] Etym: [OE. haten, hatien, AS. hatian; akin to OS. hatan, hat to be hostile to, D. haten to hate, OHG. hazz, hazz, G. hassen, Icel. & Sw. hata, Dan. hade, Goth. hatan, hatian. . Cf. Hate, n., Heinous.]

1. To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. 1 John iii. 15.

2. To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted. I hate that he should linger here. Tennyson.

3. (Script.)

Definition: To love less, relatively. Luke xiv. 26.

Syn.

– To Hate, Abhor, Detest, Abominate, Loathe. Hate is the generic word, and implies that one is inflamed with extreme dislike. We abhor what is deeply repugnant to our sensibilities or feelings. We detest what contradicts so utterly our principles and moral sentiments that we feel bound to lift up our voice against it. What we abominate does equal violence to our moral and religious sentiments. What we loathe is offensive to our own nature, and excites unmingled disgust. Our Savior is said to have hated the deeds of the Nicolaitanes; his language shows that he loathed the lukewarmness of the Laodiceans; he detested the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees; he abhorred the suggestions of the tempter in the wilderness.

Hate, n. Etym: [OE. hate, hete, AS. hete; akin to D. haat, G. hass, Icel. hatr, SW. hat, Dan. had, Goth. hatis. Cf. Hate, v.]

Definition: Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love. For in a wink the false love turns to hate. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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