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| abominable |
causing or deserving hate or disgust. |
| can't stand |
If you can't stand something, you hate it, or you strongly dislike it. You feel like you can't tolerate it. If you can't stand a person, you really dislike them. |
| contempt |
Contempt is a very strong feeling similar to hate, but when you feel contempt for someone or something, that person or thing makes you feel angry and disgusted. You look down on them and you cannot feel any respect for them at all. |
| despise |
to hate or scorn. |
| detest |
to have a strong dislike for; hate. |
| emotion |
Emotions are feelings that all people have. Love, hate, fear, and anger are some emotions that people feel. Some emotions are so strong that changes in our bodies happen. Sometimes our hearts beat faster, our face turns red, or we start to cry, shake, or laugh. [1/2 definitions] |
| feeling |
A feeling is an emotion. Things like love, hate, anger, and happiness are feelings. Feeling is also the ability to feel emotion, especially things like love and sympathy for other people. [1/5 definitions] |
| hate |
When you hate something, you think it is terrible. You don't like it, and your feeling about it is very strong. [2 definitions] |
| hateful |
full of hate; showing hate. [1/2 definitions] |
| hatred |
a feeling of hate or strong dislike. |
| hostility |
the state of being unfriendly or full of hate. [1/2 definitions] |
| loathe |
to dislike very much; hate. |
| prejudice |
When people feel prejudice toward people of another group, they hate them or treat them badly without any reason except that they are different from themselves. They hate them without knowing anything about them as real people. They only know that they look different or believe in a different religion or have different ideas. [1/2 definitions] |
| scorn |
When you scorn something, you think it is terrible and you have no respect for it. If you scorn another person, you hate them or think they have little value. [1/3 definitions] |
| stand |
When you can stand something, you can live with it even if it is very bad. If you have pain but you can stand it, you don't cry or scream. If you can't stand the pain, you will cry and scream a lot. If you can't stand something, you try to stop it or get away from it because it is too terrible for you to live with. Sometimes when you say you can't stand something, it means that you hate it or you really don't like it. [1/12 definitions] |
| take |
If you say you can't take something, it means that it's really hard for you to accept it or live with it You might really hate it or it is making your life very difficult. [1/13 definitions] |
| wild |
(informal) If you're wild about something, you really like it and think it's great. If you say you're not wild about something, you mean that you don't hate it but you don't like it very much either. [1/9 definitions] |
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