Meanings
comparative more self-hating · superlative most self-hating
- Exhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.
Online and over Shabbat dinners, arguments about the election have grown bitter. Those grudgingly planning to vote for Labour have been called traitors to the community and self-hating Jews. Anti-Corbyn die-hards, on the other hand, have been branded the handmaidens of a hard Brexit.
2019 November 21, Benjamin Mueller, “At Odds With Labour, Britain's Jews Are Feeling Politically Homeless”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 20231 more example
When Tim Kinsella, of the pioneering indie rock groups Cap’n Jazz and Joan of Arc, wrote a scathingly sarcastic editorial in the emo-centric magazine Alternative Press imploring every band inside to break up, Bemis bristled at Kinsella’s cynicism, calling him a “self-hating emophobe” in a letter to the magazine.
2006 November 2, August Brown, “Don’t get comfortable around them”, in Los Angeles TimesSynonyms: self-hateful, self-loathing
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveExhibiting self-hatred; feeling hatred toward oneself.
Origin
From self- + hating. First use appears c. 1612 in the work Great Brittans Mourning Garment, of anonymous authorship.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish samonienawistny
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Spanish autoodiador, autodespreciador
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self-hating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-hating
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