hate

1. 1.

   dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards

   “I hate Mexican food”

   “She detests politicians”

   Synonymsdetest

   Antonymslove

   Broaderdislike

   Narrowerabhorcontemn

Other forms of hate

plural

hates·

past tense

hated·

present participle

hating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hate

What does hate mean?

hate means "the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hate?

hate has 1 syllable: hate. In IPA it is /ˈheɪt/.

What is another word for hate?

Close synonyms include hatred, detest. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of hate?

The recorded antonyms are love, love.

Is hate a common word?

hate is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.