HATRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatred mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATRED (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 ("hatred" is a kind of...):

emotion (any strong feeling)

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

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)

 Context examples 

These favours aroused in them jealousy and hatred.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Above all, he hated my young legitimate heir from the first with a persistent hatred.

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

No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever feeling a dislike against him, that could be so called.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

His elder brother dashed his hand aside with an oath, while an expression of malignant hatred passed over his passion-drawn features.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were twin whirlwinds of hatred, revolving about each other monstrously.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The hatred of Hyde for Jekyll was of a different order.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Still, in her heart, she must retain bitterness and hatred against those who had killed him and would presumably help so far as she could to have revenge upon them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Occasionally, with faces which were convulsed with fear and hatred, they shook their clenched hands at the woods round and cried: "Doda! Doda!" which was surely their term for their enemies.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well has Solomon said—"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

From you only could I hope for succour, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)