hate

CEFRA1

[heʔ]

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To strongly dislike someone or something.

  2. 02

    noun

    A very strong feeling of dislike.

Examples

  • I hate it when there are a lot of people.

  • I hate those spiders. They're always there to freak me out when I'm cleaning.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
1
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [hɛɪ̯(ʔ)t̚]
  • [hɛjt]

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.

  2. To dislike intensely or greatly.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An object of hatred.

More examples

In context

  • She gave him a look of real hate.

  • He gave me a look filled with pure hate.

  • One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.

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Origin

verb

From Middle English hate (noun), probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”, verb) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”, noun). Merged with Middle English hete, hæte, heate (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-Germanic *hataz (“hatred, hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“strong emotion”). Cognate with Dutch haat (“hatred”), German Hass, Haß (“hate, hatred”), Luxembourgish Haass (“hate, hatred”), Vilamovian hās (“hate, hatred”), Yiddish האַס (has, “hatred”), Danish had (“hate, hatred”), Faroese and Icelandic hatur (“hatred, spite, aversion”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hat (“hate, hatred”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃 (hatis, “hate, wrath”). The verb is from Middle Englis...