The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action.

synonym: hatred.

Roget 907: malevolence; bad intent, bad intention; unkindness, diskindness^†; ill nature, ill will, ill blood; bad blood; enmity etc. 889; hate etc. 898; malignity; malice, malice prepense^†; maliciousness etc. adj.; spite, despite; resentment etc. 900.    uncharitableness etc. adj.; incompassionateness etc. 914.1^†; gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity^†, acerbity churlishness etc. (discourtesy) 895.    hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness etc. adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity^†, ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity^†, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.    ill turn, bad turn; affront etc. (disrespect) 929; outrage, atrocity; ill usage; intolerance, persecution; tender mercies [Iron.]; unkindest cut of all" [Julius Caesar]. ... show more

Roget 867: dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency^†.    reluctance; backwardness etc. (unwillingness) 603.    repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness^†, aversation^†, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate etc. 898; animosity etc. 900; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa^†, xenophobia.    sickener^†; gall and wormwood etc. (unsavory) 395; shuddering, cold sweat.    ... show more

Roget 889: enmity, hostility; unfriendliness etc. adj.; discord etc. 713; bitterness, rancor.    alienation, estrangement; dislike etc. 867; hate etc. 898.    heartburning^†; animosity etc. 900; malevolence etc. 907.    ... show more

Roget 898: hate, hatred, vials of hate.    disaffection, disfavor; alienation, estrangement, coolness; enmity etc. 889; animosity etc. 900.    umbrage, pique, grudge; dudgeon, spleen bitterness, bitterness of feeling; ill blood, bad blood; acrimony; malice etc. 907; implacability etc. (revenge) 919.    repugnance etc. (dislike) 867; misanthropy, demonophobia^†, gynephobia^†, negrophobia^†; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, b=ete noire; enemy etc. 891; bitter pill; source of annoyance etc. 830.    ... show more

Roget 713: disagreement etc. 24; discord, disaccord^†, dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling etc. v.; screw loose.    variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes, odds, brouillerie [Fr.]; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism etc. (dissent) 489; feud, faction.    quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie^†, squabble, altercation, barney [Slang], demel_e, snarl, spat, towrow^†, words, high words; wrangling etc. v.; jangle, brabble^†, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.    polemics; litigation; strife etc. (contention) 720; warfare etc. 722; outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war.    broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation^†; embroilment, embranglement^†, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work [Fr.], scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance etc. (disorder) 59; commotion etc. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.    subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point; bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli [Lat.]; question at issue etc. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata quaestio [Lat.], brand of discord.    troublous times^†; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness etc. adj.; enmity etc. 889; hate etc. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant etc. 710; strange bedfellows.    ... show more

Dutch: tegenzin, hekel, wrok, afkeer, afgunst, haat, haatgevoel, haatgevoelens, vijandschap
Polish: nienawiść

Dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards:
— I hate Mexican food.

synonym: detest.

Roget 867: mislike misrelish^†, dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have rather not, would rather not, prefer not to, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for, take a dislike to, have an aversion to, have an aversion for; have no taste for, have no stomach for.    shun, avoid etc. 623; eschew; withdraw from, shrink from, recoil from; not be able to bear, not be able to abide, not be able to endure; shrug the shoulders at, shudder at, turn up the nose at, look askance at; make a mouth, make a wry face, make a grimace; make faces.    loathe, nauseate, abominate, detest, abhor; hate etc. 898; take amiss etc. 900; have enough of etc. (be satiated) 869.    wish away, unwish cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble^†, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold etc. (give pain) 830; pall.    ... show more

Roget 898: hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate; scowl etc. 895; disrelish etc. (dislike) 867.    owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice etc. (malevolence) 907; conceive an aversion to, take a dislike to.    excite hatred, provoke hatred etc. n.; be hateful etc. adj.; stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify etc. 830; roil.    ... show more

Dutch: haatobject, verfoeien, verafschuwen, haten