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   hostile

   /ˈhɒstʌɪl/

   adjective

   • 1. showing or feeling opposition or dislike; unfriendly: "a hostile audience" Similar antagonisticaggressiveconfrontationalbelligerentbellicosepugnaciousmilitanttruculentcombativewarlikeunfriendlyunkindbitterunsympatheticmalevolentmaliciousviciousspitefulrancorousvenomousbitingwrathfulangryliterary:maleficmaleficentOpposite friendlymild
   • ▪ of or belonging to a military enemy: "hostile aircraft"
   • ▪ opposed: "people are very hostile to the idea" Similar opposedaverseantagonisticill-disposedunsympatheticantipatheticinimicalopposingagainstdead set againstat odds withinformal:antidown onOpposite in favour of
   • ▪ (of a takeover bid) opposed by the company to be bought: "the brewery fought off a hostile takeover bid last year"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French, or from Latin hostilis, from hostis ‘stranger, enemy’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. hostilely adverb

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