loathes

Meanings

• verb

  feel intense hatred or dislike for (someone or something)

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Synonyms

abhor , abominate , despise

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with loathes
hates , mates , fates

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Variants

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loathe , loathed , loather , loathers , loathes , loathing

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Forms

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loathed, loathing

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to be slow' in Old English, but the sense evolved to 'hate' due to the idea of being slow to forgive.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'loathes' is rarely used in everyday speech and is often considered a formal or literary term.

2. The opposite of 'loathes' is 'loves'.

3. The word 'loathesome' is an adjective that means causing intense disgust or loathing.

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Related Concepts

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

2. dislike: A feeling of annoyance, distaste, or aversion towards 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 Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Romeo famously uses the word 'loathes' to express his deep hatred for Juliet's family. In modern times, the word is often used in a more casual context.

How to Memorize "loathes"

1. visualize
   

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2. associate
   

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3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the first letter of each definition: 'L' is for 'loath' some, 'O' is for 'O'dious, 'A' is for 'A'version, and 'T' is for 'T'est.

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