hate
hate
verb (hates, hated, hated, hating)
/heɪt/
not usually used in the progressive tenses
1 transitive, intransitive to dislike somebody/something very much
hate somebody/yourself The two boys hated each other.
Sometimes I really hate him.
He was her most hated enemy.
hate something I hate spinach.
I really hate Monday mornings.
I hate the way she always criticizes me.
hate it… He hated it in France (= did not like the life there).
She's hating it at university.
hate it when… I hate it when people cry.
Don't you just hate it when everyone gets the joke except you?
hate it that… He hated it that she was right.
hate doing something She hates making mistakes.
I hate coming home late.
hate to do something He hated to be away from his family.
She's a person who hates to make mistakes.
I hate to see him suffering like this.
I hate to think what would have happened if you hadn't been there.
hate somebody/something doing something He hates anyone parking in his space.
hate somebody/something to do something I'd hate anything to happen to him.
She would have hated him to see how her hands shook.
hate for somebody/something to do something I'd hate for all this to go to waste.
hate somebody/yourself for something The country's police force was widely hated for its brutality.
hate somebody/yourself for doing something I hated myself for feeling jealous.
When children are taught to hate, the whole future of society is in danger.
Grammar Point want / like / love / hate / think
Synonyms hate
TOPICS Preferences and decisions A1
TOPICS Feelings A1
Collocations
adverb
particularly
really
absolutely
verb + hate
begin to
come to
grow to…
preposition
for
phrases
hate it when
hate to say, see, think, etc.
2 ​no passive hate to do something used when saying something that you would prefer not to have to say, or when politely asking to do something
I hate to say it, but I don't think their marriage will last.
I'd hate to say how many hours I've spent trying to fix my computer.
I hate to trouble you, but could I use your phone?
Idioms
hate somebody’s guts
Phrasal Verbs
hate on
hate
noun
/heɪt/
1 uncountable a very strong feeling of dislike for somebody
SYNONYM hatred
She gave him a look of real hate.
a strange relationship built on love and hate
hate for somebody/something She was full of hate for the people who had betrayed her.
a hate campaign (= cruel comments made about somebody over a period of time in order to damage their reputation)
Which Word? hate / hatred
TOPICS Preferences and decisions B1
TOPICS Feelings B1
Collocations
adjective
absolute
pure
verb + hate
be filled with
be full of
burn with…
hate + noun
campaign
figure
mail
preposition
hate for
2 ​countable (informal) a person or thing that you hate
Plastic flowers have always been a particular hate of mine.
TOPICS Preferences and decisions B2
Idioms
somebody’s pet hate
Word Origin
Old English hatian (verb), hete (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch haten (verb) and German hassen (verb), Hass ‘hatred’.