Clues for the word "HATE"
We've had 242 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 788 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on July 08, 2026.
Definition of hate
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - To love less, relatively.
- v. - 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.
Referring Clues
- More than a peeve
- Can't stand
- Despise
- Abhor
- Kind of crime
- Bigot's emotion
- With 22-Across, Federal law enforcement matter
- Crime motivation
- Have trouble standing
- Not fancy at all
- Love's opposite
- "Unimaginable as ___ in Heav'n": Milton
- Ill will
- Motive for some crime
- "Don't you just ___ it when ...?"
- Odium
- Can't stomach
- Kind of mail
- More than antipathy
- No fond feeling
- Loathe
- Can't take
- Berlin's "Oh, How I ___ to Get Up in the Morning"
- "Cherish those hearts that ___ thee": Shak.
- Venom
- Detest
- Bête noire
- "Haughty Juno's unrelenting ___": Dryden
- Abominate
- "Too great a burden to bear": Martin Luther King Jr.
- Not like
- Bad feeling?
- Detestation
- Find awful
- Find abominable
- Absolutely detest
- "10 Things I ___ About You"
- Malevolence
- Crime category
- Obscene four-letter word
- More than dislike
- Not fancy in the least
- Really dislike
- Have no use for
- Misanthrope's emotion
- Repugnance
- Not dig at all
- Detest utterly
- One of the Three Fires of Buddhism
- Find repugnant
- Word before mail or crime
- Intense dislike
- "Authority is never without ___": Euripides
- "In time we ___ that which we often fear": Shakespeare
- Loathing
- Dislike plenty
- Something disliked
- Complete rejection
- Strong dislike
- Be unwilling
- Deep animosity
- Antipathy
- "Cherish those hearts that ___ thee" (Shakespeare)
- Enmity
- Misanthrope's feeling
- Have no love lost for
- Find loathsome
- Love antithesis
- Powerful emotion
- "I ___ war" (Roosevelt)
- Destructive emotion
- Intense emotion
- Unpleasant type of mail
- Terrible motivation
- Strong emotion
- Deep repugnance
- Crime motive
- An intense emotion
- Feel repulsion toward
- Motive for some crimes
- Bear malice
- Love's antithesis
- Word on Harry Powell's left fingers in "The Night of the Hunter"
- Have no use for, and then some
- Take dislike to the extreme
- Show enmity toward
- Extreme dislike
- Extreme aversion
- "Cherish those hearts that ___ thee" (Shakespeare)
- "I ___ war" (Roosevelt)
- "In time we ___ that which we often fear": Shakespeare
- Content of some regulated speech
- Emotional extreme
- A kind of literature
- Rancour
- Don't just dislike
- Negative emotion
- Execrate
- Execrate
- Not like at all
- Hold in abomination
- Love-___ relationship
- Not go for at all
- Can do without
- "I ___ quotations" (Emerson)
- Feel antipathy toward
- Bigotry
- Find intolerable
- "A failure of imagination," per Graham Greene
- Have trouble standing?
- "Too great a burden to bear": M.L. King Jr.
- Hardly fancy?
- Hardly like
- Utterly detest
- Deem intolerable
- Intense aversion
- "In time we ___ that which we often fear": Shak.
- "I ___ Hamlet" (Paul Rudnick play)
- See 42-Across
- "I ___ spunk" (Lou Grant to Mary)
- Abhorrence
- Animosity
- Be a misanthrope
- Extreme animosity
- "Don't you just ___ it when ..."
- Dislike intensely
- Dislike greatly
- ___ speech
- Give a zero-star review, say
- Intro to monger
- Bad emotion to have
- Source of some crime
- Can't abide
- ___-watch
- One of Buddhism's three fires
- Hardly fancy
- Give zero stars, say
- Find distasteful to the max
- Not like a bit
- Base emotion
- "My only love sprung from my only ___!": Juliet
- Loathe greatly
- Opposite of love
- Not like in any way
- Can't bear
- Dr. King's "evil and dangerous force"
- Dislike very much
- Milton's "Immortal ___"
- Dislike
- Complete opposite of love
- Despise the hell out of
- Loathe, as taking a bath
- Word before mail or monger
- Feel extreme dislike for (4)
- Opposite of 36-Across
- It's far from love
- Feel extreme dislike for
- Dislike strongly
- Love/___
- "I ___ everything about you" Ugly Kid Joe lyric
- Joan Jett "I ___ Myself for Loving You"
- Nirvana "I ___ Myself and Want to Die"
- Plain White T's "___ (I Really Don't Like You)"
- NIN "Pretty ___ Machine"
- Godsmack "Love-___-Sex-Pain"
- "I ___ Everything About You"
- Def Leppard "When Love and ___ Collide"
- Faith No More "The thing you ___ the most"
- Intense(ly) dislike
- Husband consumed with enmity
- It's found in couples each at endless enmity
- Strong dislike of hotel tea, perhaps
- Had a meal at the hotel you can't stand
- Loathe articles in disorder
- Word with mail or speech
- Passionately dislike
- What that enemy harbours?
- Feel antipathy for
- Act the misanthrope
- Ill feeling
- Animus of the witch at Endor?
- Part of whatever is object of loathing
- A chateau where this bugbear has to stay
- Strongly dislike
- Such as 17's cloistered soliloquy, a pet going back into possible 45
- "I ___ quotation": Emerson
- "___ That I Love You" (Rihanna song)
- Can't tolerate
- Dislike to the max
- U-turn from love
- Love? No, u-turn
- Completely dislike
- ___ mail
- Bowler, say, opener for Esssex can't stand
- Detest resident in chateau
- Bad blood
- Strong dislike of a noted bowler?
- "I ___ to say it ..."
- "The ___ U Give" (2018 film)
- "O brawling love! O loving ___!": Romeo
- Not fancy in Britain?
- Absolutely can't stand
- Strong negative emotion
- Really, really dislike
- Not fancy in the least?
- No love of old chateau wine
- Can’t bear
- Word you may have tattooed opposite "love"
- ___-watch: continue viewing a show you no longer like
- Really, really, really not like
- "Haughty Juno's unrelenting ___": Aeneid
- Absolutely despise
- Not at all fancy
- Word with crime or watch
- Certain internal intensity
- "___ is too great a burden to bear": Martin Luther King Jr.
- Feeling cats have toward citrus
- Deeply despise
- Not just dislike
- Horrible emotion to have
- What Graham Greene called a "failure of imagination"
- Not fancy
- Find despicable
- "It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet," per Maya Angelou
- Really detest
- Find unbearable
- "The ___ U Give": Angie Thomas novel
- Spike Lee's "She ___ Me"
- "Stop the ___": protest sign
- Horrible emotion
- "I ___ to say it, but ... "
- The opposite of 12ÂAcross
- "I am free of all prejudices. I ___ everyone equally": W. C. Fields
- "Anger leads to ___. ___ leads to suffering": Yoda
- Detest completely
- Word repeated four times in the chorus of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off"
- Love/___ relationship
- "Thanks, I ___ it"
- Find odious
- Word before mail or watch
- "Stop the ___"
- Emotion that leads to suffering, per Yoda
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