loathe
pronunciation
How to pronounce loathe in British English:
UK [ləʊð]
How to pronounce loathe in American English:
US [loʊð]
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- Verb:
- find repugnant
Word Origin
- loathe
- loathe: [OE] Loathe originated as a derivative of the adjective loath or loth [OE]. This originally meant ‘hostile’ or ‘loathsome’, and goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *laithaz, which also produced Swedish led ‘fed up’ and German leid ‘sorrow’, and was borrowed into the Romance languages, giving French laid and Italian laido ‘ugly’.
- loathe (v.)
- Old English laðian "to hate, to be disgusted with," from lað "hostile" (see loath). Cognate with Old Saxon lethon, Old Norse leiða. Related: Loathed; loathing.
Example
- 1. I loathe serial litigants far more than lawyers .
- 2. People here always seem to loathe whomever they elected president .
- 3. Why we loathe learning and love sport
- 4. Southerners may loathe kim jong il 's regime , but do not want the slightest risk of war and have no appetite for punishing their destitute northern kin .
- 5. Men may know they 're wrong about something but often loathe saying they 're sorry .