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hate speech

hate speech noun: speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Noun

hate speech (uncountable)

  1. Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
    • Facebook belatedly moved to further restrict hate speech that glorified violence against women after an organized social media campaign caused some companies like Nissan, the automaker, to withhold advertising from the site.2013 May 30, “Hate Speech on Facebook”, in New York Times

hate speech meaning in Hindi, Malay, Indonesian and Thai

hate speech in Hindi

offensive speech
अभद्र भाषा abhadra bhāṣā

hate speech in Malay

offensive speech
ucapan hina, bahasa hina

hate speech in Indonesian

offensive speech
ujaran kebencian

hate speech in Thai

offensive speech
ประทุษวาจา bprà-tút-sà-waa-jaa
More languagesFewer languages
hate speech in Vietnamese
ngôn từ thù địch, ngôn từ gây thù ghét

Forms of hate speech

alternative formhate-speech

Origin of hate speech

From hate + speech. Compare Old English hetesprǣċ (“hateful speech”).

Questions about hate speech

What does hate speech mean?
Hate speech means speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
What is hate speech in Hindi?
Hate speech in Hindi is अभद्र भाषा (abhadra bhāṣā). See Hate speech meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hate speech?
Hate speech is a noun.

Words near hate speech in the dictionary

  1. hate mailers
  2. hate music
  3. hate on
  4. hate sex
  5. hate someone's guts
  6. hate speech
  7. hate strike
  8. hate strikes
  9. hate the game, not the player
  10. hate the sin but love the sinner
  11. hate watch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hate speech (page history and authors). 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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