Other forms: hated, hates, hating
Hate is the strongest feeling against somebody or something. Full of hate, hate crime, hate speech.
As a verb it is used far more loosely — I hate mushrooms, I hate Mondays — where it means strong dislike rather than anything serious. That looseness is why the noun still carries weight. Hate crime and hate speech are legal and policy terms with specific definitions. Note hatred, which is the abstract noun and sounds more serious than hate; and love-hate relationship.
1nounhateThe strongest feeling against somebody or something.~93%
“There was real hate in the letter and no argument at all.”
synonyms: hatred, loathing
2verbdislikeTo dislike something very strongly.~7%
“She hates being late more than she hates anything else.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 15 sentences found in the wild and placed 15 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
hate is a strong feeling against.
Also accepted in games: hatred
Old English hatian is Germanic and unrelated to hot despite the resemblance. Hate and heinous come from the same distant root, which meant something like grief or hostility.
Proto-Indo-European
*keh₂d-
Old Norse
hatr — hate
Old English
hatian — to hate
Middle English
haate
English, today
hate
Built from
From Middle English haate, hat, hate, probably from Old English hatian (“to hate”) and/or Old Norse hatr (“hate”). Merged with Middle English het, hete (“hate”), from Old English hete, from Proto-West Germanic hati, from Proto-Germanic hataz (“hate”), from Proto-Indo-European ḱeh₂d- (“angriness, hatred”). 2 Cognate with Dutch haat (“hatred”), German Hass, Haß (“hate, hatred”), lb Haass (“hate, hatred”), wym hās (“hate, hatred”), Yiddish האַס (“hatred”), Danish had (“hate, hatred”), Faroese and Icelandic hatur (“hatred, spite, aversion”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish hat (“hate, hatred”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐍄𐌹𐍃 (“hate, wrath”); also Breton and kw kas (“hatred”), Old Irish miscuis (“hatred”), Welsh cas (“hatred”), osc 𐌊𐌀𐌃𐌄𐌝𐌔 (“enmity”), Ancient Greek κῆδος (“care for others; troubles; mourning”), Sanskrit रि॒शाद॑स् (“benign or devouring or destroying enemies”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA