hostility
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4.7
- noun
- /hɑːˈstɪlɪti/
:
hostilidad
- There is too much hostility between the two sides.
- anger and hostility
- express hostility
- indifference and hostility
Because we do seem to have this opposition and long term hostility going on, she says.
- Because we do seem to have this opposition and long term hostility going on, she says.
- What is it that I'm doing or not doing that creates hostility there all the time.
- And that one country is the one that the world's entire hostility has turned towards.
- I started feeling a judgement in the tone of your voice, a sense of hostility in your actions.
- Of course there was hostility when when he first came, that's well chronicled.
- Negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, hostility.
- I've sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against any tyranny over the minds of man.
- So I decide that the answer for this to win him over and sort out whatever's going on with his hostility to my leadership.
- And so I consider the enthusiasm for solar and wind to be a pretext for just hostility toward energy as such.
- So the H the horse hostility doesn't mean arguing, it doesn't mean fighting.
Examples
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Yet in this report, those organizations are viewed with a hostility ill-disguised as suspicion.
Academic text (1990) -
There's been open hostility between the two factions.
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So you end it with that kind of of hostility which was there at the time.
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Because we do seem to have this opposition and long term hostility going on, she says.
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Whoa, I sense some hostility.
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In addition, there remains a high level of hostility toward the ban in certain quarters.
Academic text (1999) -
The battle has taken on a level of hostility with shades of medieval religious wars.
Academic text (1990) -
The impression they left was one of hostility and mockery.
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His expression gave no hint of either sympathy or hostility, or of any wariness on his part.
Fiction book (1991) -
The hostility between the rival teams was evident during the match.
Synonyms
549
1.0
A very strong dislike that can make you want to harm someone
394
1.9
A very strong dislike that can make a person want to hurt others
101
3.5
Hostile or violent behavior toward others
57
6.1
Strong angry feeling toward a person or group
31
6.5
A strong dislike of something or someone
19
5.3
A strong feeling of dislike or anger toward someone
19
9.0
A strong feeling of hate toward someone or something
16
8.0
A strong feeling of hatred toward people or groups
16
6.9
Hostile feeling between people or groups
11
8.3
A strong feeling of dislike toward someone or something
Antonyms
Compounds
How Hostile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hostility comes from the Latin word hostis, which means 'enemy'. It shares the same root as hostile, so a helpful way to remember hostility is that it describes unfriendly feelings or attitudes toward someone.