Hostile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: hostile forces; hostile acts.
  • adj. Feeling or showing enmity or ill will; antagonistic: a hostile remark.
  • adj. Unfavorable to health or well-being; inhospitable or adverse: a hostile climate.
  • n. An antagonistic person or thing.
  • n. An enemy in warfare.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly
  • n. An enemy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly
  • n. An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to an enemy: as, hostile ground.
  • Of inimical character or tendency; having or exhibiting enmity or antagonism; antagonistic: as, a hostile manifesto; hostile criticism.
  • Synonyms Averse, Adverse, Inimical, Hostile; unfriendly, warlike. Averse applies to feeling, adverse to action: as, I was very averse to his going; an adverse vote; adverse fortune. Inimical expresses both feeling and action, generally in private affairs. Hostile also expresses both feeling and action, but applies especially to public affairs; where it applies to private matters, it expresses either strong or conspicuous action or feeling, or both, or all.
  • n. An enemy: specifically, in the United States, a hostile Indian; an Indian who is engaged in warfare against the whites.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
  • n. troops belonging to the enemy's military forces
  • adj. characterized by enmity or ill will
  • adj. very unfavorable to life or growth
  • adj. impossible to bring into friendly accord
  • adj. not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
  • Equivalent
    Hypernym
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    Synonym
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    opposite    inimical    repugnant    contrary    warlike    antagonistic    opposed    adverse    unfriendly    enemy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Argyll    Kyle    Marseille    Mikhail    Niall    Nile    Pyle    Theil    Weil    Weill   
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    friendly    foreign    dangerous    suspicious    aggressive    critical    unfriendly