loather

Meanings

• noun

  A person who feels intense hatred or disgust towards something.

  - "She is a loather of spiders."
  - "He became a loather of public speaking after a humiliating experience."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with loather
hater , painter , creator , maintainer

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Variants

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loathe , loathed , loather , loathers , loathes , loathing

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'one who loves' but the meaning has shifted to 'one who hates' in modern English.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'loather' is not commonly used in everyday speech and is more often found in literary or formal contexts.

2. The word 'loather' comes from the Old English word 'lufian', which meant 'to love'. The shift in meaning is an example of semantic change in the English language.

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Related Concepts

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

2. phobia: An intense fear or hatred of something, often to the point of irrationality.

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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, the term 'loather' is often used to describe a character's intense dislike or hatred towards something. For example, in Shakespeare's 'Othello', Iago is a loather of Othello and manipulates him into believing his wife has been unfaithful.

How to Memorize "loather"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a person making a face of disgust or hatred when you hear the word 'loather'.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'loather' with intense dislike or hatred.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by remembering the word 'loather' as 'hater in reverse'.

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