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It is an awful, awful word:
hate
[heyt] Show IPA verb, hat·ed, hat·ing, noun.
verb (used with object) 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.
verb (used without object) 3. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.
noun 4. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
5. the object of extreme aversion or hostility.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English hat ( i ) en, Old English hatian (v.); cognate with Dutch haten, Old Norse hata, Gothic hatan, German hassen
Related forms hat·er, noun.
self-hate, noun.
un·hat·ed, adjective.
un·hat·ing, adjective.
un·hat·ing·ly, adverb.
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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