Hate and Mourn

Opposite meaning words

Hate verb - To dislike strongly.

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Mourn is an antonym for hate.

Nearby Words: hateful, hated, hating, hatefully, hater

Mourn verb - To feel deep sadness or mental pain.

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Hate is an antonym for mourn in be sad over loss topic.

Nearby Words: mournful, mournfully, mourning, mourner

love	hate love	mourn love
person	hate person	mourn person
life	hate life	mourn life
man	hate man	mourn man
Other words: guy, people, family, someone, time, fact, bit, father, dad, brother, everyone.

In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, there's a variation where Harry tells Dumbledore he's figured out that he can't just lock himself away and mourn Sirius, because Sirius would hate Harry to be alone.

Source: Hates Being Alone
After they mourn over his clearly very dead body and start to turn away, he suddenly reforms to his normal shape and comes back to life, running over to them and saying "Hate it when that happens".

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