hate
Audio Help [heyt] Pronunciation Key verb, hat·ed, hat·ing, noun
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Audio Help [heyt] Pronunciation Key verb, hat·ed, hat·ing, noun –verb (used with object)
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| 1. | to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry. |
| 2. | to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it. |
| 3. | to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility. |
| 4. | intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility. |
| 5. | the object of extreme aversion or hostility. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME hat(i)en, OE hatian (v.); c. D haten, ON hata, Goth hatan, G hassen
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hater, noun
—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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v. hat·ed, hat·ing, hates v. tr.
v. intr. To feel hatred. n.
[Middle English haten, from Old English hatian. N., Middle English, from Old English hete.] hat'er n. |
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hate (v.)
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 P.Gmc. *khatis-, altered in M.E. to conform with the verb. Hate mail is first attested 1967.
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| 1. | the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action [ant: love] |
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| 1. | dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians" [ant: love] |
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hate
In addition to the idiom beginning with hate, also see somebody up there loves (hates) me.
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
hate [heit] verb
to dislike very much
Example: I hate them for their cruelty to my father; I hate getting up in the morning.
hate1 [heit] nounExample: I hate them for their cruelty to my father; I hate getting up in the morning.
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great dislike
Example: a look of hate
hate2 [heit] nounExample: a look of hate
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something disliked
Example: Getting up in the morning is one of my pet (= particular) hates.
See also: hateful, hatredExample: Getting up in the morning is one of my pet (= particular) hates.
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Hate
Ab*hor"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abhorred; p. pr. & vb. n. Abhorring.] [L. abhorrere; ab + horrere to bristle, shiver, shudder: cf. F. abhorrer. See Horrid.]1. To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. --Rom. xii. 9. 2. To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.] It doth abhor me now I speak the word. --Shak. 3. (Canon Law) To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. --Shak. Syn: To hate; detest; loathe; abominate. See Hate.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Hate
A*bom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abominating.] [L. abominatus, p. p. or abominari to deprecate as ominous, to abhor, to curse; ab + omen a foreboding. See Omen.] To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn: To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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