hate

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An object of hatred.
2. (countable, uncountable) Hatred.
3. (Internet, countable, metonymically, uncountable) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
4. (countable, metonymically, uncountable) Bigotry.

Verb

1. (transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
2. (intransitive) To experience a feeling of hatred.
3. (informal, slang) Used in a phrasal verb: hate on.

Synonyms

dislike

detest

hatred

loathe

abhor

despise

abominate

disgust

anger

💢

detestation

loathing

enmity

aversion

abomination

abhorrence

resent

resentment

repugnance

grudge

execrate

distaste

refuse

antipathy

detestability

envy

animosity

enemy

love

❤️

sorrow

be bitter against

be antagonistic to

be unfriendly with

scorn

swear

revenge

wicked

resentful

regret

reject

wrath

malice

ill will

hostility

loath

disgusted

be jealous

disdain

ah

disapprove

heartburning

Translations

haïr

😡

hassen

😡

odiar

😡

détester

odiare

😡

odio

haine

Hass

haten

😡

odio

😡

odiar

😡

detestare

detestar

haat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/heɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hate

Cognate with Middle English: hete

Cognate with Western Frisian: haat

Cognate with Dutch: haat

Cognate with German: Hass

Cognate with Danish: had

Cognate with Norwegian: -

Cognate with Swedish: hat

Inherited from Middle English: haten

Inherited from Old English: hatian

In summary

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, 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.