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hated

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ˈheɪtɪd//

Disliked; odious; reviled.

adjective

  1. 1

    Disliked; odious; reviled.

    bitterly hated

    much-hated

    universally hated

Etymology

From Middle English hated, from Old English hatod, ġehatod (“hated”, past participle), from Proto-Germanic *hatadaz (“hated”), equivalent to hate + -ed. Cognate with Saterland Frisian haated, hoated (“hated”), Dutch gehaat (“hated”), German Low German haat (“hated”), German gehasst (“hated”), Swedish hatad (“hated”), Icelandic hataður (“hated”).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of hatesimple past and past participle of hate

Forms

comparative
more hated
superlative
most hated
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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