hate
nounEtymology
From Middle English hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English hete, hæte, heate (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hatred, hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“strong emotion”). Cognate with Dutch haat (“hatred”), German Hass, Haß (“hate, hatred”), Luxembourgish Haass (“hate, hatred”), Vilamovian hās (“hate, hatred”), Yiddish האַס (has, “hatred”), Danish had (“hate, hatred”), Faroese and Icelandic hatur (“hatred, spite, aversion”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hat (“hate, hatred”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃 (hatis, “hate, wrath”). The verb is from Middle English haten, from Old English hatian (“to hate, treat as an enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *hatēn, from Proto-Germanic *hatāną (“to hate”), from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from the same root as above.
Definitions
An object of hatred.
- One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.
Hatred.
- He gave me a look filled with pure hate.
Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
- There was a lot of hate in the comments on my vlog about Lady Gaga from her fans.
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Bigotry.
- The corporation said it would not tolerate hate.
To dislike intensely or greatly.
- As a kid, I used to hate to cycle to school every morning.
- I hate to say it, but I know we're going to lose.
- People who hate broccoli may have super-sensitive taste buds.
To experience a feeling of hatred.
Used in a phrasal verb
Used in a phrasal verb: hate on.
- I put ranch dressing on pizza. Please don't hate on me.
The neighborhood
- synonymabhor
- synonymabominate
- synonymcan't stand
- synonymcan't stand the sight of
- synonymdespise
- synonymdetest
- synonymdisrelish
- synonymexecrate
- synonymhate
- synonymloathe
- synonymresent
- synonymspite
- antonymloveantonym(s) of
- neighborhatel
- neighborhatred
- neighborheinous
- neighbordislike
Derived
antihate, apprecihate, behate, cyberhate, hatable, hate-crime, hate-speech, gay-hate, hateblog, hate-boner, hate click, hate crime, hatedom, hatefest, hatefic, hate figure, hate-filled, hate fuck, hate group, hateless, hatelike, hatelisting, hate mail, hate mailer, hatemonger, hate music, hate-on, hate-read, hate-sex, hate sex, hateship, hatesite, hatesome, hate speech, hate strike, hate-watch, hateworthy, hatriot, Jew-hate, love-hate · +16 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at hate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at hate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at hate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA