Hate
[heɪt] or [het]
Definition
(noun.) the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action.
(verb.) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; 'I hate Mexican food'; 'She detests politicians'.
Edited by Elvis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.
(n.) To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted.
(n.) To love less, relatively.
(v.) Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; -- opposed to love.
Checker: Thomas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bear malice to, owe a grudge to.[2]. Detest, abhor, abominate, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from.
n. Hatred, detestation, animosity, enmity, hostility, antipathy.
Editor: Terence
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABHOR]
Checked by Jean
Definition
v.t. to dislike intensely: to dislike: to despise relatively to something else.—n. extreme dislike: hatred.—adjs. Hate′able deserving to be hated; Hate′ful exciting hate: odious: detestable: feeling or manifesting hate.—adv. Hate′fully.—ns. Hate′fulness; Hat′er; Hat′red extreme dislike: enmity: malignity.
Edited by Ellis
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you hate a person, denotes that if you are not careful you will do the party an inadvertent injury or a spiteful action will bring business loss and worry. If you are hated for unjust causes, you will find sincere and obliging friends, and your associations will be most pleasant. Otherwise, the dream forebodes ill.
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- But you must improve it--yes, say you will--for I hate it all now! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I hate the Boffins! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Edward would marry her I'm sure: and there's Captain Dobbin who, I think, would--only I hate all army men. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I hate to dwell long on any subject, unless indeed it were the merits of these my most interesting and valuable memoirs! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I hate his wife, sir. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The true lie is hated not only by the gods, but also by men? Plato. The Republic.
- Caliphronas turned pale, for he knew that Justinian was absolute ruler of Melnos, while he was thoroughly well hated by the inhabitants, one and all. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Hence she hated Sundays when all was at rest, and often said they would be the death of her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Like his father, he hated ceremony. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was brutal to you: you hated him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Leitner hated Loerke with an injured, writhing, impotent hatred, and Loerke treated Leitner with a fine-quivering contempt and sarcasm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If I had not been what you make me out to be,' he struck in, skilfully changing the form of words, 'would you still have hated me? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And one woman has a turn for gymnastic and military exercises, and another is unwarlike and hates gymnastics? Plato. The Republic.
- My mother would have had no objection, but my father hates London. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Young Mr. Turveydrop hates it for my sake, and if old Mr. Turveydrop knows there is such a place, it's as much as he does. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And now I think he hates me because--because you mistook him yesterday. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then she ceased to make any attempt, and said, weeping, O Thomasin, do you think he hates me? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She hates lazy people. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She hates Ellen, he thought, and she's trying to overcome the feeling, and to get me to help her to overcome it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Do the best you can,--do what you must,--and make it up in hating and cursing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They sought (hating war as most of them did) to establish a universal culture, or, as they phrased it, a constant intelligence throughout all civil nations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There is no use in hating people--if you hate anything, you should hate what produced them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- For some time he was silent, hating to answer her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What reason could the miserable creature have for hating a man whom he had nothing to do with? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is the thing seen, heard, loved, hated, imagined, and there is the act of seeing, hearing, loving, hating, imagining, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hating to see so much waste, Edison tried to save all he could by eating it on the spot, but as a result our family doctor had the time of his life with me in this connection. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Rhonda