Crossword Dictionary
Hate
hate, detest - v
dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards; "I hate Mexican food"; "She detests politicians"
Synonyms
abhor, despise, detest, loathe, scorn, shun, abominate, anathematize, contemn, curse, deprecate, deride, disapprove, disdain, disfavor, disparage, execrate, nauseate, spurn
Examples
Most people hate him, but they don't dare to say so, because he still rules the country.
She hated hospitals and didn't like the idea of having an operation.
I'd hate to think my job would not be secure if I left it temporarily.
Etymology
Old English hatian "regard with extreme ill-will, have a passionate aversion to, treat as an enemy," from Proto-Germanic *haton (source also of Old Saxon haton, Old Norse hata, German hassen, Gothic hatan "to hate"), from PIE root *kad- "sorrow, hatred" (source also of Avestan sadra- "grief, sorrow, calamity;" Greek kēdos "care, trouble, sorrow, mourning, funeral rites;" Welsh cas "pain, anger"). Related: Hated; hating. French haine (n.), haïr (v.) are from Germanic.
- ATROCITY
- BARBARITY
- BESTIALITY
- BLOODTHIRSTINESS
- BRUTALITY
- BRUTISHNESS
- CALLOUSNESS
- COARSENESS
- CORRUPTION
- CRUELNESS
- CRUELTY
- DEPRAVITY
- ENORMITY
- FEROCITY
- FIERCENESS
- HARDHEARTEDNESS
- HARSHNESS
- HEARTLESSNESS
- HORRIBLENESS
- IMMORALITY
- INHUMANITY
- INSENSIBILITY
- INSENSITIVENESS
- MALEVOLENCE
- MALICE
- MALIGNITY
- MASOCHISM
- MERCILESSNESS
- MURDEROUSNESS
- RANCOR
- RUTHLESSNESS
- SADISM
- SAVAGENESS
- SAVAGERY
- SEVERITY
- SPITE
- SPITEFULNESS
- TORTURE
- TRUCULENCE
- UNFEELINGNESS
- UNKINDNESS
- WICKEDNESS