hated
v.v. felt a very strong dislike for someone or something. You use this when you want to say you really did not like something in the past.
v. the past tense and past participle of 'hate', expressing an intense dislike or extreme aversion. Typically describes a strong emotional state rather than a temporary preference.
I hated the taste of mushrooms when I was a child.
She hated the long commute to the city, so she eventually found a job closer to home.
The protagonist's internal conflict stemmed from the fact that he hated the very institution he had spent his entire life serving with distinction.
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”).
The verb is transitive and takes a direct object or a gerund ('hated doing').
I was hated the movieI hated the movieLearners sometimes incorrectly use 'be' with the past tense of 'hate' when they mean to express their own feeling, rather than being the object of someone else's hate.