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hate

[heyt]

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verb (used with object)

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.

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verb (used without object)

to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.

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noun

intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.

the object of extreme aversion or hostility.

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

Related forms

hat·er, noun

self-hate, noun

un·hat·ed, adjective

un·hat·ing, adjective

un·hat·ing·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. loathe, execrate; despise. 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
1. love.

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hate (heɪt)

—vb
1.	to dislike (something) intensely; detest
2.	(intr) to be unwilling (to be or do something)

—n
3.	intense dislike
4.	informal a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate)
5.	(modifier) expressing or arousing feelings of hatred: hate mail

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

'hateable

—*adj*

'hatable

—*adj*

'hater

—n

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Word Origin & History

hate

O.E. hatian "to hate," from P.Gmc. *khatojanan (cf. O.S. haton, O.N. hata, Ger. hassen, Goth. hatan "to hate"), from PIE base *kedes- "feel strongly" (cf. Avestan sadra- "grief, sorrow, calamity," Gk. kedos "care, trouble, sorrow," Welsh cas "pain, anger"). The noun is O.E. hete "hatred, spite," from

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P.Gmc. *khatis-, altered in M.E. to conform with the verb. Hate mail is first attested 1967.

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Idioms & Phrases

hate

In addition to the idiom beginning with hate, also see somebody up there loves (hates) me.