Word.ws English Dictionary

Plural of hate

regular plural

The plural of hate is hates.

Forms of hate

Singularhate /heɪt/
Pluralhates /heɪts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Hates in a sentence

  • One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.
  • My eye doctor hates the flinch I have every time he tries to get near my eyes.From the entry flinch
  • My wife hates football, and that goes for me as well.From the entry go for
  • She caught him seeing another woman, and now she hates his guts.From the entry hate someone's guts
  • You can tell Mittens hates Fido from her airplane ears whenever she sees him.From the entry airplane ears

Meaning of hate

  1. noun An object of hatred.
  2. noun Hatred.
  3. noun Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.

Full definition of hate

Questions about the plural of hate

What is the plural of hate?
The plural of hate is hates.
Is hate countable?
Hate is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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