Definition of hate

"hate" in the noun sense

1. hate, hatred

the emotion of intense dislike a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

"hate" in the verb sense

1. hate, detest

dislike intensely feel antipathy or aversion towards

"I hate Mexican food"

"She detests politicians"

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Quotations for hate

Haters gonna hate.

To hate is a torment. [ Segur ]

Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create. [ Abraham Cowley ]

Men hate those they have hurt. [ Proverb ]

Whom great men wrong, they hate. [ Proverb ]

Of all tame beasts I hate a slut. [ Proverb ]

I hate the man who builds his name
On ruins of another's fame. [ Gay ]

I do hate him as I hate the devil. [ Ben Jonson ]

We hate delay, yet it makes us wise. [ Proverb ]

Here's a sigh for those who love me,
And a smile for those who hate,
And whatever sky's above me,
Here's a heart for every fate. [ Byron ]

Scepters and suitors hate competitors. [ Proverb ]

Love thyself, and many will hate thee. [ Anon ]

I hate war, for it spoils conversation. [ Fontenelle ]

Hate sin as you would a poisonous snake.

I am misanthropos, and hate mankind,
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog.
That I might love thee something. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men hate those to whom they have to lie. [ Victor Hugo ]

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]

People hate, as they love, unreasonably. [ Thackeray ]

Her stature tall - I hate a dumpy woman. [ Byron ]

In time we hate that which we often fear [ William Shakespeare ]

We must love, as looking one day to hate. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He who surpasses or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate of those below. [ Byron ]

They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]

The good hate sin because they love virtue. [ Horace ]

Hell is the wrath of God - His hate of sin. [ Bailey ]

I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood. [ William Shakespeare ]

If she do frown, it is not in hate of you,
But rather to beget more love in you:
If she do chide, it is not to have you gone;
For why, the fools are mad if left alone.
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;
For - get you gone - she doth not mean - away. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fathers alone a father's heart can know,
What secret tides of still enjoyment flow,
When brothers love, but if their hate succeeds,
They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. [ Young ]

Hate no one - hate their vices, not themselves. [ Brainard ]

He that fears you present will hate you absent. [ Proverb ]

A jest driven too far brings home hate or scorn. [ Proverb ]

Nor love thy life nor hate; but what thou livest
Live well; how long or short permit to heaven. [ Milton ]

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed Mercy pleads. [ Charles Sprague ]

The best of men have ever loved repose;
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. [ Thomson ]

The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. [ Proverb ]

Never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. [ Milton ]

We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [ Regnard ]

Some injure all they fear, and hate all they injure. [ Proverb ]

Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them. [ James Parton ]

Generally we love ourselves more than we hate others. [ Proverb ]

Likeness begets love, yet proud men hate one another. [ Proverb ]

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him. [ Dr. Johnson ]

When a few words will rescue misery out of her distress,
I hate the man who can be a churl of them. [ Sterne ]

Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts men down. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We easily hate those whom we have given cause to hate us. [ Mme. de Lussan ]

I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hate furroweth the brow, and a man may frown till he hateth. [ Tupper ]

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. [ Tac ]

When our hatred is too keen it places us beneath those we hate. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If you hate a man eat his bread; and if you love him do the same. [ Proverb ]

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. [ Waller ]

The zeal of friends it is that razes me. And not the hate of enemies. [ Schiller ]

It is the wit, the policy, of sin to hate those men whom we have abused. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

I admire her who resists; I pity her who succumbs; I hate her who condemns. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured. [ Tacitus ]

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. [ Goethe ]

Hatred is active, and envy passive, disgust; there is but one step from envy to hate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies. [ Addison ]

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. [ Dewey ]

I hate hypocrites, insolent comedians, who put on their virtues with their white gloves. [ A. de Musset ]

Offend her, and she knows not to forgive; Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. [ Pope ]

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. [ Emerson ]

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us. [ Colton ]

I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone. [ Gilpin ]

To be deprived of the person we love is a happiness in comparison to living with one we hate. [ La Bruyere ]

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. [ Beecher ]

Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant; and tyrants hate the truth. [ I. I. Kozlof ]

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. [ Colton ]

We sometimes think we hate flattery, when we only hate the manner in which we have been flattered. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Hate belongs with sin. If we do a wrong, we hate either the thing or God, or ourselves, or somebody else. [ Duffield ]

We have three kinds of friends: those who love us, those who are indifferent to us, and those who hate us. [ Chamfort ]

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. [ Bible ]

To hate a man for his errors is as unwise as to hate one who, in casting up an account, has made an error against himself. [ Robertson ]

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]

A coldness or an incivility from such as are above us makes us hate them, but a salute or a smile quickly reconciles us to them.

I wish it were never one's duty to quarrel with anybody; I do so hate it: but not to do it sometimes is to smile in the devils face. [ George MacDonald ]

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. [ Jesus ]

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular, - that slides along like an eel and never rises to what one can call an inequality. [ Shenstone ]

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world. [ Pascal ]

It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves. [ Bruyere ]

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you. [ Plutarch ]

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth. I hate to see a load of bandboxes go along the street, and I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them. [ Hazlitt ]

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. [ Socrates ]

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, living, godlike hatred. [ F. W. Robertson ]

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]

To see each other, to profess to love each other, to prove it, to quarrel, to hate, then to separate, that one may seek a new love: this is the history of a moment, and of every day in the comedy of the world. [ De Varennes ]

Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers. [ Helvetius ]

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, - feel it, and hate in silence. [ Washington Allston ]

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate - how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

hate in Scrabble®

The word hate is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters hate:

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hate in Words With Friends™

The word hate is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters hate:

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Words containing the sequence hate

Word Growth involving hate

Shorter words in hate

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Longer words containing hate

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leachate leachates

phosphate diphosphate diphosphates

phosphate dithiophosphate dithiophosphates

phosphate fluorophosphate

phosphate glycerophosphate glycerophosphates

phosphate hexakisphosphate

phosphate hyperphosphatemia

phosphate hypophosphate hypophosphatemia

phosphate hypophosphate hypophosphatemic

phosphate hypophosphate hypophosphates

phosphate lactophosphate lactophosphates

phosphate metaphosphate metaphosphates

phosphate monophosphate monophosphates

phosphate nonphosphate nonphosphates

phosphate organophosphate organophosphates

phosphate orthophosphate orthophosphates

phosphate phosphates diphosphates

phosphate phosphates dithiophosphates

phosphate phosphates glycerophosphates

phosphate phosphates hypophosphates

phosphate phosphates lactophosphates

phosphate phosphates metaphosphates

phosphate phosphates monophosphates

phosphate phosphates nonphosphates

phosphate phosphates organophosphates

phosphate phosphates orthophosphates

phosphate phosphates polyphosphates

phosphate phosphates pyrophosphates

phosphate phosphates silicoaluminophosphates

phosphate phosphates sulfoxyphosphates

phosphate phosphates sulphoxyphosphates

phosphate phosphates superphosphates

phosphate phosphates tetrathiophosphates

phosphate phosphates triphosphates thiotriphosphates

phosphate phosphates trithiophosphates

phosphate phosphates zymophosphates

phosphate polyphosphate polyphosphates

phosphate pyrophosphate pyrophosphates

phosphate silicoaluminophosphate silicoaluminophosphates

phosphate sulfoxyphosphate sulfoxyphosphates

phosphate sulphoxyphosphate sulphoxyphosphates

phosphate superphosphate superphosphates

phosphate tetrathiophosphate tetrathiophosphates

phosphate triphosphate thiotriphosphate thiotriphosphates

phosphate triphosphate triphosphates thiotriphosphates

phosphate trithiophosphate trithiophosphates

phosphate zymophosphate zymophosphates

photosynthate photosynthates

sulphate barytosulphate

sulphate bisulphate bisulphates

sulphate disulphate disulphates

sulphate hydrosulphate hydrosulphates

sulphate hyposulphate hyposulphates

sulphate oversulphated

sulphate oxysulphate

sulphate persulphate persulphates supersulphates

sulphate persulphate supersulphate supersulphated

sulphate persulphate supersulphate supersulphates

sulphate pyrosulphate pyrosulphates

sulphate sesquisulphate sesquisulphates

sulphate subsulphate subsulphates

sulphate sulphates bisulphates

sulphate sulphates disulphates

sulphate sulphates hydrosulphates

sulphate sulphates hyposulphates

sulphate sulphates persulphates supersulphates

sulphate sulphates pyrosulphates

sulphate sulphates sesquisulphates

sulphate sulphates subsulphates

sulphate sulphates thiosulphates

sulphate sulphates trisulphates

sulphate thiosulphate thiosulphates

sulphate trisulphate trisulphated

sulphate trisulphate trisulphates

sulphate unsulphated

sulphate zircosulphate

tetrarchate tetrarchates

triarchate matriarchate matriarchates

triarchate patriarchate patriarchates

whatever

xanthate xanthates