Word Meanings - HOSTILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: HOSTILE

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. Syn. -- Warlike; inimical; unfriendly; antagonistic; opposed; adverse; opposite; contrary; repugnant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HOSTILE)

• Adverse
• Opposed to
• unlucky
• hard
• hostile
• antagonistic
• unpropitious
• opposite
• conflicting
• contrary
• unfavorable
• Antagonistic
• opposing
• inimical
• repugnant
• Averse
• Hostile
• disinclined
• indisposed
• backward
• unwilling
• reluctant
• loath
• Belligerent
• Contending
• engaging
• fighting
• opposed
• adverse
• rival
• antagonist
• assailant
• Repugnant
• averse
• irreconcilable
• incompatible
• contradictory
• heterogeneous

Related words: (words related to HOSTILE)

• RIVALESS
  A female rival. Richardson.
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• ANTAGONIST
  A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it. (more info) 1. One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. Antagonist of Heaven's
• HETEROGENEOUS
  Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• UNWILL
  To annul or reverse by an act of the will. Longfellow.
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• AVERSE
  1. Turned away or backward. The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden. 2. Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend.
• CONFLICTIVE
  Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton.
• HOSTILELY
  In a hostile manner.
• IRRECONCILABLE
  Not reconcilable; implacable; incompatible; inconsistent; disagreeing; as, irreconcilable enemies, statements. -- Ir*rec"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rec"on*ci`la*bly, adv.
• INIMICALITY
  The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• NONARRIVAL
  Failure to arrive.
• TRAVERSE
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• PREINDISPOSE
  To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.