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HATRED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
Synonyms:
hate; hatred
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("hatred" is a kind of...):
emotion (any strong feeling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hatred"):
abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium (hate coupled with disgust)
misanthropy (hatred of mankind)
misogamy (hatred of marriage)
misogynism; misogyny (hatred of women)
mysoandry (hatred for men or boys)
misology (hatred of reasoning)
misoneism (hatred of change or innovation)
misopedia (hatred of children)
murderousness (a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses)
despisal; despising (a feeling of scornful hatred)
enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)
malevolence; malignity (wishing evil to others)
Context examples:
It may seem impossible to you that one in my humble walk of life should bear a deadly and implacable hatred against a man in the position of Captain Barrington.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I trembled all the while betwixt fear and hatred.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I did not see into the eyes of Leach, for he was looking at Wolf Larsen, the old and implacable snarl of hatred strong as ever on his face.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The resolute and unrelenting hatred of her tone, its cold stern sharpness, and its mastered rage, presented her before me, as if I had seen her standing in the light.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was not prone to rashness and precipitate action; and in the bitter hatred between him and Spitz he betrayed no impatience, shunned all offensive acts.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Womble stirred uneasily, feeling for the other the hatred one is prone to feel for one he has wronged.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was not easy to pick one’s steps, but, on the whole, I was inclined to dismiss the idea that there had been anything between the Colonel and Miss Morrison, but more than ever convinced that the young lady held the clue as to what it was which had turned Mrs. Barclay to hatred of her husband.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Laurie spoke excitedly, and looked ready to carry his threat into execution on the slightest provocation, for he was growing up very fast and, in spite of his indolent ways, had a young man's hatred of subjection, a young man's restless longing to try the world for himself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Its effect upon her appears in the immediate resolution it produced: as soon as she found I was really gone from Randalls, she closed with the offer of that officious Mrs. Elton; the whole system of whose treatment of her, by the bye, has ever filled me with indignation and hatred.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
