hostile

Speech parts

1. hostile - Noun

2. hostile - Adjective

3. hostile - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

antagonistic unfriendly warlike adverse inimical mean opposed contrary aggressive militant malicious belligerent venomous combative hateful
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Antonyms

friendly amicable darling social good samaritan
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Hypernyms

soldiery military personnel troops

Phrases with the word

hostile relationship being hostile to hostile party hostile to make hostile feel hostile towards

Anagrams

elohist holiest sholtie Sithole

Examples

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell

Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty. Ron Paul

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. W. Somerset Maugham

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses. Norman Mailer

If a man's heart be impure, all things will appear hostile to him. Asian-indian Proverb

If a man's heart be impure, all things will appear hostile to him. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Hostettler hosticide hostie hostile act hostile architecture hostile attitude towards russians