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love-hates

love-hates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of love-hate.

Meaning of love-hate

Verb

love-hate (third-person singular simple present love-hates, present participle love-hating, simple past and past participle love-hated)

  1. (transitive) To feel both love and hate (for someone or something), often simultaneously.
    • […]Eric got to act out his resentment while also hating himself, really love-hating himself, and he got to do it while masquerading as a warrior for the less fortunate!2022, Jordan Castro, The Novelist, Catapult, →ISBN

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Questions about love-hates

What is love-hates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Love-hates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of love-hate.

Words near love-hates in the dictionary

  1. love-feats
  2. love-hair
  3. love-handled
  4. love-hate
  5. love-hated
  6. love-hates
  7. love-hating
  8. love-hatred
  9. love-hatreds
  10. love-in
  11. love-in-a-mist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: love-hates (page history and authors); love-hate (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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