EGAVE

hostile

About 12.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
    a hostile force
  2. adjective Aggressive; antagonistic.
  3. adjective Unwilling.
  4. adjective Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
    Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo! as soon as Friday, according to a published report.
  5. noun An enemy.

Similar words

enemy inimical antagonistic antipathetical opponent antipathetic ill opposing unfavourable truculent

Often followed by

to and environment attitude or indians forces toward world

Word family

hostilely hostiles

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