Anathema vs. Hate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anathema and Hate
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Anathema
Anathema, in common usage, is something or someone detested or shunned. In its other main usage, it is a formal excommunication.
Hate
To feel strong dislike for or hostility toward
Rivals who hate each other.
Anathema
A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.
Hate
To feel dislike or distaste for
Hates washing dishes.
Hates to get up early.
Anathema
A vehement denunciation; a curse
"the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
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Hate
To be disinclined (to do something) out of politeness or a need to apologize
I hate to interrupt, but can I ask you a quick question?.
Anathema
One that is cursed or damned.
Hate
To feel hatred.
Anathema
One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned
"Essentialism—a belief in natural, immutable sex differences—is anathema to postmodernists, for whom sexuality itself, along with gender, is a 'social construct'" (Wendy Kaminer).
Hate
Intense animosity or dislike; hatred.
Anathema
A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
Hate
An object of hatred.
One of my pet hates is traffic wardens.
Anathema
(by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
Hate
Hatred.
He gave me a look filled with pure hate.
Anathema
(literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
Hate
(Internet slang) Negative feedback, abusive behaviour.
There was a lot of hate in the comments on my vlog about Justin Bieber from his fans.
Anathema
(ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.
Hate
(transitive) To dislike intensely or greatly.
Anathema
A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
[They] denounce anathemas against unbelievers.
Hate
(intransitive) To experience hatred.
Do not fear; he who fears hates; he who hates kills. — attributed to Gandhi
Anathema
An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families].
Hate
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.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.
Anathema
Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
The Jewish nation were an anathema destined to destruction. St. Paul . . . says he could wish, to save them from it, to become an anathema, and be destroyed himself.
Hate
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.
I hate that he should linger here.
Anathema
A detested person;
He is an anathema to me
Hate
To love less, relatively.
Anathema
A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
Hate
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.
For in a wink the false love turns to hate.
Hate
The emotion of hate; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
Hate
Dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards;
I hate Mexican food
She detests politicians
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