Noun These crimes are motivated by prejudice and hate. They have been unable to overcome their hates and fears. Verb He was a cruel tyrant who was hated and feared by his people. She hated them for betraying her. They were political rivals who truly hated each other. What is it that you hate about him most? children whose families have taught them to hate They hate being apart from each other. I hate the idea of leaving my mother alone all week. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Mainstream legal experts have said if HB 20 survives legal challenge, tech companies would be forced to host spam, hate speech, pornography and other legal-but-problematic material on their platforms in order to comply with the text of the law. Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022 The law, known as A.B. 587, will require tech companies to file semiannual reports with the state’s attorney general that publicly disclose their content moderation policies regarding hate speech, disinformation and extremism. Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022 Jones, whose web show and Infowars brand are based in Austin, Texas, has been banned from YouTube, Facebook and Spotify for violating hate-speech policies.CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022 Jones, whose web show and Infowars brand are based in Austin, Texas, has been banned from YouTube, Facebook and Spotify for violating hate-speech policies. Dave Collins, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022 Jones, whose web show and Infowars brand are based in Austin, Texas, has been banned from YouTube, Facebook and Spotify for violating hate-speech policies. Dave Collins, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022 YouTube also banned Tate’s channels, including TateSpeech, citing multiple violations of the platform’s community guidelines and terms of service, including its hate-speech policy. Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Aug. 2022 Previously, after widespread negative attention, Cloudflare has removed its services from websites like the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi hate forum, and 8Chan, the extremist platform. Ben Collins, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022 Its importance is magnified even more with the increase in the number of hate groups that have cropped up across the nation, including reports of white nationalist organizations in Connecticut, Kornman said. Ted Glanzer, Hartford Courant, 2 Sep. 2022
Verb
Sibley tried his hand selling residential real estate in Boston, and didn’t hate it. Steve Marantz, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2022 This new whisky from Highland Park combines the best of both of these worlds, meaning that the lovers are gonna love, the haters are gonna hate and all the while the angels will continue to drink their share. Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022 Dogs and cats tend to hate it and their owners don't exactly love to do it, either. Caitlyn Hitt, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2022 Some restaurants, knowing that customers hate them, have brought back physical menus. Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022 While fans in the Bay Area may hate it, all of that is by design. Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 But nuclear energy already exists — and the environmentalists who should be its most committed and energetic advocates positively hate it. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 28 July 2022 In both swing states and safe seats, many Republicans say that liberals hate them personally and may turn rioters or a police state on people who disobey them. David Weigel, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2022 Usually those who hate it are those who don’t maintain it.oregonlive, 18 July 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, probably derivative of haten "to hate entry 2," replacing hete "hate, hatred," going back to Old English, going back to Germanic *hatiz- (whence, also inflected as an i-stem as in Old English, Old Saxon heti "hatred," and, inflected as a neuter strong noun, Old Norse hatr "hatred, spite" and Gothic hatis "anger, enmity"), perhaps going back to Indo-European *ḱh2d-es-, derivative of a base *ḱeh2d- "grief, pain, hatred," whence, with different ablaut grades and suffixation, Oscan cadeis (genitive singular) "ill will," Middle Irish cais "love, hatred," Old Welsh cás "bitterness, hatred" (Celtic from a derivative *ḱh2d-ti-), Greek kêdos (neuter) "care, grief, (in plural) funeral rites, mourning, connection by marriage," Avestan sādra- "grief, pain, calamity"
Note: Though this Indo-European etymon is generally accepted in etymological dictionaries of the relevant older languages, the semantic relations are far from transparent, in particular the relation between "grief, mourning, care" (Greek, Iranian) and "hatred" (Germanic, Italic, and Celtic, though the ambiguity of the Irish word is peculiar).
Verb
Middle English haten, going back to Old English hatian, going back to Germanic *hatōjan- (whence Old Saxon haton "to hate," Old High German hazzōn, Old Norse hata,), derivative from the base of *hatiz-hate entry 1