hating

verb (used with object), hat·ed, hat·ing.

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), hat·ed, hat·ing.

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.

adjective

6. noting or relating to acts that are motivated by hatred, prejudice, or intolerance: a hate crime; a hate group; hate mail.

Verb Phrases

7. hate on, Informal. to show hate toward, criticize, or belittle, usually unfairly: Don’t hate on him just because he wins all the time.

verb

1. to dislike (something) intensely; detest
2. (intr) to be unwilling (to be or do something)

noun

3. intense dislike
4. informal a person or thing that is hated (esp in the phrase pet hate)
5. (modifier) expressing or arousing feelings of hatredhate mail

n.

Old English hete “hatred, spite,” from Proto-Germanic *hatis- (cf. Old Norse hattr, Old Frisian hat, Dutch haat, Old High German has, German Hass, Gothic hatis; see hate (v.)). Altered in Middle English to conform with the verb. Hate mail is first attested 1967.

v.

Old English hatian “to hate,” from Proto-Germanic *hatojanan (cf. Old Saxon haton, Old Norse hata, German hassen, Gothic hatan “to hate”), from PIE root *kad- “sorrow, hatred” (cf. Avestan sadra- “grief, sorrow, calamity,” Greek kedos “care, trouble, sorrow,” Welsh cas “pain, anger”). Related: Hated; hating. French haine (n.), hair (v.) are Germanic. Hate crime attested from 1988.

In addition to the idiom beginning with hate

• hate someone’s guts

also see:

• somebody up there loves (hates) me