Definitions for hate

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Spelling: [heyt]

IPA: /heɪt/

Hate is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in hate (aeht).

Definitions for hate

noun

1. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.
2. the object of extreme aversion or hostility.

adjective

1. noting or relating to acts that are motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance:

Verb phrases

1. hate on, Informal. to show hate toward, criticize, or belittle, usually unfairly:

verb (used with object)

1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest:
2. to be unwilling; dislike:

verb (used without object)

1. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.

Origin of hate

before 900; Middle English hat(i)en, Old English hatian (v.); cognate with Dutch haten, Old Norse hata, Gothic hatan, German hassen

Examples for hate

But no doubt the gang had thought caution to be the better part of hate.

And even today there are despicable instances of hate crimes versus Jews in our country.

Because all you guys do is talk about how you hate this person because of that.

For the moment at least, the man is open to influences from another source than his hate.

Everyone says they hate cops,” Jaden wrote, “but they are the people that they call for help.

He would only go away as soon as he had had enough of it, and hate him all the same!

You are right; I do not feel the smallest inclination to hate him.

To not give in to profiteers, paid-off politicians and an extreme minority who hate its government and way of life.

In the mindset of the Coexist camp, those abstract beliefs have become twisted things, wrapped up with hate.

Folks say I'm prejudiced against em; but it isn't so—I hate 'em.