hate
/heɪt/
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Canada[heːt]
hate noun: an object of hatred.
Noun
hate (countable and uncountable, plural hates)
Verb
hate (third-person singular simple present hates, present participle hating, simple past and past participle hated)
- To dislike intensely or greatly.
- As a kid, I used to hate to cycle to school every morning.
- I hate to say it, but I know we're going to lose.
- To experience a feeling of hatred.
- Used in a phrasal verb: hate on.
- I put ranch dressing on pizza. Please don't hate on me.
hate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
hate in Hindi
- to dislike intensely
- घृणा करना ghŕṇā karnā
hate in Tamil
- to dislike intensely
- வெறு veṟu
hate in Marathi
- द्वेष करणे, द्वेष, तिरस्कार
hate in Urdu
- to dislike intensely
- گھرنا کرنا ghŕṇā karnā, نفرت کرنا nafrat karna
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- hate in Bengali
- ঘৃণা করা ghrina kora
- hate in Telugu
- ఏవగించుకొను ēvagiñcukonu, అసహ్యించుకొను asahyiñcukonu
- hate in Malayalam
- വെറുക്കുക veṟukkuka
- hate in Kannada
- ಹಗೆ, ಹಗೆತನ, ದ್ವೇಷ, ವೈರ
- hate in Punjabi
- ماکھی mākhī
- hate in Gujarati
- નફરત, નફરત કરવી, ધિક્કારવા માટે
- hate in Odia
- ଘୃଣା, ଘୃଣା କରିବା
- hate in Sanskrit
- द्वेष्टि dvéṣṭi
- hate in Sinhala
- ද්වේෂ කරනවා dwēṣa karanawā
- hate in Assamese
- ঘিণ ghin
- hate in Nepali
- घृणा, घृणा गर्न
- hate in Pashto
- بدوړل badwṛǝ́l
- hate in Tagalog
- mapoot
- hate in Arabic
- كَرِهَ kariha, أَبْغَضَ ʔabḡaḍa
- hate in Malay
- benci
- hate in Indonesian
- benci, membenci
- hate in Persian
- نفرت داشتن nefrat dâštan, بیزار بودن bizâr budan
- hate in Thai
- เกลียด glìiat
- hate in Vietnamese
- ghét
- hate in Myanmar
- စက်ဆုပ် cakhcup, မုန်း mun:
Examples of hate in a sentence
- Keyboarding is the part of this job I hate the most.
- I hate the current government, but not enough to want to overthrow them.
- I hate the thought of going back to work Monday morning.
Synonyms of hate
- abhor
- abominate
- can't stand
- can't stand the sight of
- despise
- detest
- disrelish
- execrate
- loathe
- resent
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Antonyms
Forms of hate
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hates |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hates |
| present participle | hating |
| past participle | hated |
| past | hated |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | hatest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | hatedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | hateth |
Origin of hate
From Middle English haate, hat, hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English het, hete (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-West Germanic *hati, from Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₂d- (“angriness, hatred”). Cognates 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 and Icelandic hatur (“hatred, spite, aversion”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hat (“hate, hatred”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃 (hatis, “hate, wrath”); also Breton and Cornish kas (“hatred”), Old Irish miscuis (“hatred”), Welsh cas (“hatred”), Oscan 𐌊𐌀𐌃𐌄𐌝𐌔 (kadeís, “enmity”), Ancient Greek κῆδος (kêdos, “care for others; troubles; mourning”), Sanskrit रि॒शाद॑स् (riśā́das, “benign or devouring or destroying enemies”). The verb is from Middle English haate, hate, haten, hatenn, hatien, hatiȝen, hatye, hatyn, heatien, from Old English hatian (“to hate, treat as an enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *hatēn, from Proto-Germanic *hatāną (“to...
Words formed from hate
- antihate
- apprecihate
- behate
- cyberhate
- hatable
- hate-crime
- hate-speech
- gay-hate
- hateblog
- hate-boner
- hate click
- hate crime
- hatedom
- hatefest
- hatefic
- hate figure
- hate-filled
- hate fuck
- hate group
- hateless
- hatelike
- hatelisting
- hate mail
- hate mailer
- hatemonger
- hate music
- hate-on
- hate-read
- hate-sex
- hate sex
- hateship
- hatesite
- hatesome
- hate speech
- hate strike
- hate-watch
- hateworthy
- hatriot
- Jew-hate
- love-hate
- pet hate
- Prop H8
- self-hate
- two-minute hate
- forehate
- hatee
- hater
- haters gonna hate
- hate someone's guts
- hate the sin but love the sinner
- I hate you
- love the sinner but hate the sin
- overhate
- self-hating
- they hate us 'cause they ain't us
- unhate
Phrases with hate
Words that rhyme with hate
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- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
- crate
Questions about hate
- What does hate mean?
- Hate means an object of hatred.
- What is hate in Hindi?
- Hate in Hindi is घृणा करना (ghŕṇā karnā). See Hate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hate?
- Hate can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce hate?
- Hate is pronounced /heɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hate?
- The plural of hate is hates.
Words near hate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hate (page history and authors); hate (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ماکھی (Punjabi) (page history and authors); hate (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hate (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ঘিণ (Assamese) (page history and authors); hate (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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