Abhor vs. Hate
Abhor vs. Hate
Test how “Abhor” and “Hate” look in your own writing.
Abhor
Term A(transitive) To regard with horror or detestation; to shrink back with shuddering from; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
To fill with horror or disgust.
(transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.
To protest against; to reject solemnly.
To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; construed with from.
Differ entirely from.
To shrink back with shuddering from; to regard with horror or detestation; to feel excessive repugnance toward; to detest to extremity; to loathe.
Example: ‘Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.’;
To fill with horror or disgust.
Example: ‘It doth abhor me now I speak the word.’;
To protest against; to reject solemnly.
Example: ‘I utterly abhor, yea, from my soulRefuse you for my judge.’;
To shrink back with horror, disgust, or dislike; to be contrary or averse; - with
Example: ‘Which is utterly abhorring from the end of all law.’;
find repugnant;
Example: ‘I loathe that man’; ‘She abhors cats’;
Hate
Term BAn object of hatred.
Example: ‘One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.’;
Hatred.
Example: ‘He gave me a look filled with pure hate.’;
(Internet slang) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
Example: ‘There was a lot of hate in the comments on my vlog about Justin Bieber from his fans.’;
(transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
(intransitive) To experience hatred.
Example: ‘Do not fear; he who fears hates; he who hates kills. — attributed to Gandhi’;
To have a great aversion to, with a strong desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; to dislike intensely; to detest; as, to hate one's enemies; to hate hypocrisy.
Example: ‘Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.’;
To be very unwilling; followed by an infinitive, or a substantive clause with that; as, to hate to get into debt; to hate that anything should be wasted.
Example: ‘I hate that he should linger here.’;
To love less, relatively.
Strong aversion coupled with desire that evil should befall the person toward whom the feeling is directed; as exercised toward things, intense dislike; hatred; detestation; - opposed to love.
Example: ‘For in a wink the false love turns to hate.’;
the emotion of hate; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards;
Example: ‘I hate Mexican food’; ‘She detests politicians’;
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