loathed

Meanings

• Adjective

  Feeling intense hatred or disgust for someone or something.

  - "I loathe spiders."
  - "He loathes broccoli."
  - "She loathes injustice."

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Synonyms

abhor , abominate , despise

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with loathed
hated , fated , gated , stated , abated

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Variants

List of all variants of loathed that leads to same result
loathe , loathed , loather , loathers , loathes , loathing

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Forms

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loathes, loathedly, loathedness

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to hate' or 'to be hateful' in Old English.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'loathed' is often used in poetry to express strong negative emotions.

2. In the novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird', Scout Finch says, 'I'd rather you should just go on hating Tom, but at least understand something about him.' This shows her growing understanding of the complexity of human emotions, including hatred and loathing.

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Related Concepts

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1. hate: A strong feeling of dislike or antipathy towards someone or something.

2. despise: To feel intense dislike or contempt for someone or something.

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Quotes

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1. Pushing the table from him while he spoke, as though he "loathed" the sight of food, he encountered the watch: the hands of which were almost upon noon.

   - Charles Dickens,{it}Nicholas Nickleby{/it},1839

2. I "loathed" the job so much that I did it quickly, urgently, almost violently.

   - W. P. Kinsella,{it}Shoeless Joe{/it},1982

3. In fact, he was an energetic walker his whole life, but he "loathed" fresh-air fiends and he was rather stuck on the idea of being dissolute.

   - Paul Theroux,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},21 Apr. 1991

4. How I "loathed" the look of that type on my pages! Everything I wrote seemed, in that type, arrhythmic, dull, stupid.

   - Joseph Epstein,{it}The Middle of My Tether{/it},1983

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Culture

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In literature, 'loathed' is often used to express strong negative emotions, such as in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. In art, it can represent the feeling of revulsion or disgust.

How to Memorize "loathed"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a face contorted with hatred and the word 'loathed' written in bold letters.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'loathed' with feelings of intense dislike or disgust.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by remembering the first letter of each word in 'Love, Ought, To, Hate, Extremely'.

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