Enemy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe.
  • n. A hostile power or force, such as a nation.
  • n. A member or unit of such a force.
  • n. A group of foes or hostile forces. See Usage Note at collective noun.
  • n. Something destructive or injurious in its effects: "Art hath an enemy called Ignorance” ( Ben Jonson).
  • adj. Of, relating to, or being a hostile power or force.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
  • n. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
  • n. An alliance of such forces.
  • adj. of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary
  • adj. Hostile; inimical.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who opposes, antagonizes, or seeks to inflict, or is willing to inflict, injury upon another, from dislike, hatred, conflict of interests, or public policy, as in war; one who is hostile or inimical.
  • n. Specifically An opposing military force. See the enemy, below.
  • n. A foreign state which is in a condition of open hostility to the state in relation to which the former is regarded, or a subject of such a state.
  • n. That which is inimical; anything that is hurtful or dangerous: as, strong drink is one of man's worst enemies; a bad conscience is an enemy to peace.
  • n. The adversary of mankind; the devil; Satan.
  • n. Time: as, how goes the enemy? (= what o'clock is it?); to kill the enemy.
  • n. Synonyms Antagonist, Opponent, etc. See adversary.
  • Inimical; hostile; opposed.
  • In internȧtional law, belonging to a public enemy; belonging to a hostile power or to any of its subjects: as, enemy property.
  • To be hostile.
  • n. A dialectal corruption of anemone.
  • n. A dialectal (Scotch) corruption of emmet.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an opposing military force
  • n. a personal enemy
  • n. an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
  • n. any hostile group of people
  • Antonym
    friend    ally   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    opponent    foe    antagonist    adversary    hostile    inimical    unfriend    Philistine    foeman    archenemy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Archenemy    archenemy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    army    force    soldier    foe    ship    king    person    party    war    government