1. love-hate - Adjective
2. love-hate - Verb
love-hate (not comparable)
(originally psychoanalysis) Of a relationship: involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously.
love-hate (third-person singular simple present love-hates, present participle love-hating, simple past and past participle love-hated)
(transitive) To feel both love and hate (for someone or something), often simultaneously.
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Although the two displayed great respect and admiration for each other, their friendship was uneasy and had some qualities of a love-hate relationship. Source: Internet
Frank Capra’s evergreen romcom all but invented the love-hate formula that’s one model for silver screen chemistry, hoicking up Colbert’s skirt to flash a leg when they need to hitch-hike, and dismantling Gable’s smarmy defences. Source: Internet
His origin story hasn't taken a break in more than thirty years, and even his love-hate relationships with Joker and Catwoman have been reimagined multiple times. Source: Internet
Historically, the locals have had a love-hate relationship with the Arno – which alternated between nourishing the city with commerce, and destroying it by flood. Source: Internet
However, it is slowly revealed that Skuld and Urd share a complex love-hate relationship, and so even when they are gambling violently over rights to the television, it is obvious that they are "the very best of friends." Source: Internet
As collegiettes, we form countless love-hate relationships—with chocolate, Facebook, the gym, trashy TV shows, tequila… all the stuff that brings us pleasure and pain in one fell swoop. Source: Internet