HATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hate mean? 

• HATE (noun)
  The noun HATE has 1 sense:

1. the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

  Familiarity information: HATE used as a noun is very rare.

• HATE (verb)
  The verb HATE has 1 sense:

1. dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

  Familiarity information: HATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

hate; hatred

Hypernyms ("hate" is a kind of...):

emotion (any strong feeling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hate"):

abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium (hate coupled with disgust)

misanthropy (hatred of mankind)

misogamy (hatred of marriage)

misogynism; misogyny (hatred of women)

mysoandry (hatred for men or boys)

misology (hatred of reasoning)

misoneism (hatred of change or innovation)

misopedia (hatred of children)

murderousness (a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses)

despisal; despising (a feeling of scornful hatred)

enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)

malevolence; malignity (wishing evil to others)

Antonym:

love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)

Derivation:

hate (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)

• HATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hate    ... he / she / it hates   
Past simple: hated   
Past participle: hated   
-ing form: hating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

detest; hate

Context example:

She detests politicians

Hypernyms (to "hate" is one way to...):

dislike (have or feel a dislike or distaste for)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hate"):

abhor; abominate; execrate; loathe (find repugnant)

contemn; despise; disdain; scorn (look down on with disdain)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot hate Sue
Sam and Sue hate the movie

Antonym:

love (have a great affection or liking for)

Derivation:

hate (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

hater (a person who hates)

 Context examples 

For I had come to see a malignant devil in him which impelled him to hate all the world.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Everyone hating and making fun of you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I now hate the recollection of the time I passed with Celine, Giacinta, and Clara.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I think too much of my looks and hate to work, but won't any more, if I can help it."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was quite sane, yet he hated those men at mealtime.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He hated the very wood of the pen that confined him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Theresa was always my friend, for she loved Mary and hated this villain almost as much as I did.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, from that time Sarah hated me with her whole heart and soul, and she is a woman who can hate, too.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have no news of her husband.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)