Hating

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ˈheɪtɪŋ/

Definitions

1. Feeling a strong sense of aversion or repulsion towards someone or something
2. Demonstrating an intense emotional state marked by deep-seated dislike or antagonism towards an entity
3. Showing a powerful dislike or feeling hostility toward someone or something

Etymology: Hating is the present participle of "hate," and the verb it comes from goes back a long way in Germanic. Its ancestor, Proto-Germanic "hataz, sat alongside a whole family of words for enmity and bitterness, and the same root reappears in German "Hass," Dutch "haat," and Gothic "hatis," which meant "hate" or "wrath." Old English had a verb "hatian" meaning to hate or to treat someone as an enemy, and it is this verb that English inherited, through Middle English "haten," as the ancestor of the modern word. The root is older still. Linguists reconstruct a Proto-Indo-European form, ""ḱeh₂d-," meaning something like angriness or hatred, and related words turn up far from Germanic. Ancient Greek had "kêdos," which could mean care for others, troubles, or mourning, and Welsh "cas" and Old Irish "miscuis" also mean hatred. The spread of meanings from anger to care to grief shows how closely the emotions were linked in the ancestral language.

Synonyms: detesting, loathe, despising, abominating, disliking

Antonyms: loving, adoring, cherishing, liking, appreciating