Real-life examples: Children often hate vegetables. Enemies are people who hate each other. A person who hates dogs never wants to be around them. An environmentalist hates pollution and the destruction of rainforests.
Used in a sentence: Mark hates Ashley so much that he won’t even be in the same room as her.

Hate also means to dislike or be unwilling, usually to do something. This sense of hate implies that a person could be unwilling because of sadness, shame, or doubt rather than animosity.\n

Real-life examples: Children sometimes hate to do chores so much that their parents yell at them. Still, parents often hate to say goodbye when their children grow up and move away from home.
Used in a sentence: I hate to say it but I think my mother was right.

Hate is also used as a noun to mean a strong dislike of something. The word hate is the opposite of the word love and is often considered one of the worst things a person can feel.\n

Used in a sentence: The Grinch was consumed by his hate of Christmas.

Hate is used in a similar sense as an adjective to describe something that is related to or motivated by hate, prejudice, or intolerance.\n

Real-life examples: The Ku Klux Klan is a hate group, meaning the members hate something specific or a specific group of people, in this case chiefly Black people. Social media websites forbid hate speech. An unpopular celebrity is likely to receive hate mail.
Used in a sentence: Reading the hate speech about people’s skin color makes me sick.

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