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    what is the meaning of hate

    helo

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    It is an awful, awful word:


    hate


    [heyt] Show IPA verb, hat·ed, hat·ing, noun.


    verb (used with object) 1. to dislike intensely or passionately; feel extreme aversion for or extreme hostility toward; detest: to hate the enemy; to hate bigotry.


    2. to be unwilling; dislike: I hate to do it.


    verb (used without object) 3. to feel intense dislike, or extreme aversion or hostility.


    noun 4. intense dislike; extreme aversion or hostility.


    5. the object of extreme aversion or hostility.


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


    Related forms hat·er, noun.


    self-hate, noun.


    un·hat·ed, adjective.


    un·hat·ing, adjective.


    un·hat·ing·ly, adverb.


    Synonyms
    1. loathe, execrate; despise. Hate, abhor, detest, abominate imply feeling intense dislike or aversion toward something. Hate the simple and general word, suggests passionate dislike and a feeling of enmity: to hate autocracy. Abhor expresses a deep-rooted horror and a sense of repugnance or complete rejection: to abhor cruelty; Nature abhors a vacuum. Detest implies intense, even vehement, dislike and antipathy, besides a sense of disdain: to detest a combination of ignorance and arrogance. Abominate expresses a strong feeling of disgust and repulsion toward something thought of as unworthy, unlucky, or the like: to abominate treachery.


    Antonyms
    1. love.

    Apparently you are too young to be on this forum. How can you not know what hate means? 



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