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Definitions for Hate

[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.
[6] noting or relating to acts that are motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance: a hate crime; a hate group; hate mail.
[7] hate on , Informal . to show hate toward, criticize, or belittle, usually unfairly: Don't hate on him just because he wins all the time.
[8] 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 .
[9] to dislike (something) intensely; detest
[10] (intr) to be unwilling (to be or do something)
[11] intense dislike
[12] informal a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate )
[13] (modifier) expressing or arousing feelings of hatred hate mail

Words related to Hate

pain, antagonism, enmity, hostility, revenge, resentment, venom, horror, animosity, rancor, loathing, hatred, despise, scorn, detest, shun, abhor, loathe, grievance, abomination

Words nearby Hate

hatchie, hatching, hatchling, hatchment, hatchway, hate, hate crime, hate mail, hate sheet, hate someone's guts, hate speech

Origin of Hate

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

Other words from Hate

hat·er , noun
self-hate , noun
un·hat·ed , adjective
un·hat·ing , adjective
un·hat·ing·ly , adverb

Word origin for Hate

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

Synonyms for Hate

animosity, antagonism, enmity, hatred, horror, hostility, loathing, pain, rancor, resentment, revenge, venom, abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animus, antipathy, aversion, bother, bugbear, detestation, disgust, execration, frost, grievance, gripe, irritant, malevolence, malignity, nuisance, objection, odium, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, scorn, spite, trouble, black beast, bête noire, ill will, mislike, nasty look, no love lost