HATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hated mean? 

• HATED (adjective)
  The adjective HATED has 1 sense:

1. treated with dislike or contempt

  Familiarity information: HATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated with dislike or contempt

Synonyms:

despised; detested; hated; scorned

Similar:

unloved (not loved)

 Context examples 

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

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Of old, he had hated sleep.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If I had been obliged to look at him with him splay foot on Mr. Wickfield's head, I think I could scarcely have hated him more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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)

She hated having visitors in the house while her health was so indifferent, and lovers were of all people the most disagreeable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Here we lived long, on the rim of the sea, among a people by whom the Russians were well hated.

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

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)

How God must have hated them that they should be tortured so!

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Was it because I hate you and have hated you all my life?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Hitherto I have hated to be helped—to be led: henceforth, I feel I shall hate it no more.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)