HATING Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

hating

verb

present participle of hate

as in despising

to dislike strongly she hates her job, she hates her friends, and she hates her life!

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Recent Examples of hating The actors will soon slip into their 1967 costumes as the impoverished Greasers and the privileged Socs — and spend the next two hours hating each other onstage. — Jenelle Riley, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 Welcome to a Monday Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham turns her attention to Missouri football and wears a hat that sends a simple, yet blunt message to the woman-hating WNBA girls. — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 This shift from just hating and tormenting Mozart, and expanding that rage against God and his own mediocrity is what makes this play so profound and distinctive. — Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026 Instead of digging into the details of personality and circumstance — this school has a specific class for Shakespeare and also English teachers who are literature-hating caricatures? — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026 John may have grown up hating Hal, and Hal may have treated John like dirt during their brief time together. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2026 Out of 132 mentions of the trend, 125 were negative, with many comments not hating on the color beige, but making everything in a space the same neutral hue. — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Aug. 2026 Yet the recent swirl of negative discourse around influencer culture has felt different, in part because hating influencers is no longer just a snarky internet pastime. — Laura Jung, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026 Even Cubs-hating Sox fans had to marvel at the performance of Crow-Armstrong, whose three home runs stole the show and helped his MVP cause. — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

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despising

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For example, Scalia famously cast the deciding vote in 1989 to hold unconstitutional a law criminalizing burning the American flag despite being a big patriot and despising such activities.

— Brian Fitzpatrick, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
In a classic enemies-to-lovers plot, Sully and Helen go from despising one another to falling head over heels.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026

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