rancor

Noun

Meaning

The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

malice spite hatred resentment bitterness animosity enmity gall grudge malignity rancour venom loathing pique detestation
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Antonyms

concord amity alliance love chemistry alchemy
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Hypernyms

hostility enmity ill-will

Hyponyms

score envy grudge grievance sulkiness enviousness

Related terms

rancid

Anagrams

Carron Corran Cranor

Examples

If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light. Jean-Paul Sartre

[Jews] hate the name of Christ and have a secret and innate rancor against the people among whom they live. Francis Bacon

The -- the constant partisan rancor that stops us from solving these problems isn't a cause. It's a symptom. It's what happens when people go to Washington to work for themselves and not for you. John McCain

Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so. Donald Trump

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. José Ortega y Gasset

I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole. Douglas MacArthur

Close letter words and terms

rancidness Rancierian ranck rancorless rancorous rancorously