hater

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who strongly dislikes someone or something

   He was once a hater of opera, but a live performance changed his mind.

2. 2
   noun

   informal: a person who voices persistent, often unfair hostility or criticism

   She ignored the online haters and continued sharing her work.

Common collocations

• woman hater Noun + noun

From Middle English hatere, formed from hate + the agent suffix -er. The modern informal sense for a persistently hostile critic became especially common in late twentieth-century popular culture.

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