to hate
- verb
- /heɪt/
- You know I just hate to give this stuff away.
- love and hate
- hate people
- come to hate
Because the Gap tribe said we hate this new logo.
- Because the Gap tribe said we hate this new logo.
- You, you, you hate this guy, you hate Trump, right?
- You know, I mean, I hate earnest TV.
- So I'll pick one person to hate at the gym.
- He said you wanted me to hate him, but I love him.
- He's Obama for white people who hated the idea of Obama.
- I think we all want to hate someone or something.
- Well, no, you hate what you picked.
Examples
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Oh my God, I hate it so much.
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You, you, you hate this guy, you hate Trump, right?
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I hate parties like this.
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So I'll pick one person to hate at the gym.
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My shoes quickly wore out, and I hated to spend money on new ones.
Fiction book (1990) -
Next question then, why do you hate spaniels so much?
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The people who hate Trump hate it because he's a human.
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In the United States, to be patriotic, one must hate and fight the enemy.
Academic text (1999) -
I even caught myself hating her for making me hate myself so much.
Academic text (1999) -
I really hate when people interrupt me while I'm speaking.
Synonyms
Strongly dislike and be unable to bear something or someone
To strongly dislike and have no respect for someone or something
To dislike someone or something very strongly
To feel a very strong dislike for someone or something
To hate something very much
To dislike and not support people or things
To hate something very strongly
To dislike someone or something
To feel dislike for something or make someone dislike it
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
Speech that attacks a group and encourages others to harm or treat them unfairly, like race, religion, gender
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb hate comes from the same old German root as the German verb hassen, which meant 'to feel hatred', so to hate someone is to dislike them very strongly.