To regard with a strong and passionate dislike or aversion; regard with extreme ill-will.
In a weakened sense, to dislike; be averse; be unwilling: commonly with an infinitive.
To have little regard for, or less than for some other; despise in comparison with something else regarded as more worthy: a use of the word in Scripture.
Synonyms Hate, Abhor, Detest, Abominate, Loathe. These words express the strongest forms of dislike and aversion of either persons or things. Hate may include the others; it is more permanent and includes more ill-will toward that which is hated. To abhor, literally to start from with horror, is to have all the better feelings excited against that which is abhorred: as, we abhor cruelty. To detest, literally to bear witness against, is to condemn with indignation. Abominate, by derivation and the Biblical use of its congeners, has generally reference to what is offensive to moral and religious sentiment. To loathe is primarily to have great aversion to food, and hence to have like disgust toward that which is offensive to the moral nature or the feelings.
To feel hatred: as, one who neither loves nor hates.
See hight.
noun.
An emotion of extreme or passionate dislike or aversion; inveterate ill-will; hatred.
noun.
Vengeance; punishment.
noun.
Synonyms Ill-will, Enmity, etc. See animosity. (See also hatred.)