hostility

hostility: noun

1 opposition/aggressive feelings or actions

ADJECTIVE

▪ bitter (esp. BrE), considerable, deep, extreme, great, implacable

▪ downright, open, outright, overt

▪ Mixed-race couples faced open hostility.

▪ veiled

▪ There was a barely veiled hostility in her tone.

▪ general, widespread

▪ popular (esp. BrE), public

▪ the widespread popular hostility to the war

▪ personal

▪ continuing, growing

▪ mutual

▪ racial

VERB + HOSTILITY

▪ feel, sense

▪ the deep hostility felt by many teenagers against the police

▪ express, show

▪ arouse, attract (esp. BrE), provoke

▪ Such a move might arouse public hostility.

▪ be greeted with, be met with, encounter, face, meet with

▪ The proposal was met with outright hostility.

PREPOSITION

▪ hostility between

▪ You could almost feel the hostility between her and her mother.

▪ hostility against, hostility to, hostility towards/toward

▪ the bitter hostility towards/toward the occupying forces

2 hostilities fighting in a war

ADJECTIVE

▪ major

▪ active (esp. AmE)

VERB + HOSTILITIES

▪ cease, end

▪ Both sides finally agreed to suspend hostilities.

▪ resume (esp. BrE)

▪ Hostilities were resumed later that year.

HOSTILITIES + VERB

▪ begin, break out, commence

▪ cease, end

▪ On the November 11, 1918, hostilities ceased.

▪ continue, resume (esp. BrE)

PREPOSITION

▪ hostility against

▪ the official cessation of hostilities against Japan

▪ hostility between

▪ Hostilities broke out between the two provinces later that year.

PHRASES

▪ the cessation of hostilities

▪ an outbreak of hostilities

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Synonyms:

Enmity, animosity, hatred, unfriendliness, ill-will / Opposition, repugnance, contrariety, variance

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Hostility — Hos*til i*ty, n.; pl. {Hostilities}. [L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilit[ e].] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. [1913 Webster] Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. [1913 Webster] 2. An act … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hostility — index alienation (estrangement), argument (contention), belligerency, collision (dispute), conflict … Law dictionary
hostility — early 15c., from M.Fr. hostilité enmity (15c.), or directly from L.L. hostilitatem (nom. hostilitas) enmity, from L. hostilis, from hostis enemy (see GUEST (Cf. guest)). Hostilities in the sense of вЂњwarfareвЂќ attested from 1610s … Etymology dictionary
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hostility — [n] antagonism, meanness abhorrence, aggression, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood*, bellicosity, belligerence, bitterness, detestation, disaffection, enmity, estrangement, grudge, hatred, ill will, inimicality, malevolence,… … New thesaurus
hostility — [häs til′ə tē] n. pl. hostilities [Fr hostilité < LL hostilitas < L hostilis, HOSTILE] 1. a feeling of enmity, ill will, unfriendliness, etc.; antagonism 2. a) an expression of enmity and ill will; hostile act b) [pl.] open acts of war;… … English World dictionary
hostility — hos|til|i|ty [hɔˈstılıti US ha: ] n 1.) [U] when someone is unfriendly and full of anger towards another person hostility towards/between ▪ hostility towards foreigners hostility toward AmE ▪ hostility toward Jews open/outright hostility… … Dictionary of contemporary English
hostility — n. 1) to arouse, stir up hostility 2) to display, show hostility 3) to express; feel hostility 4) bitter, deep, profound; open hostility 5) hostility against, to, towards 6) hostility between * * * [hɒ stɪlɪtɪ] deep feel hostility open hostility … Combinatory dictionary
hostility */*/ — UK [hɒˈstɪlətɪ] / US [hɑˈstɪlətɪ] noun Word forms hostility : singular hostility plural hostilities 1) [uncountable] opposition to something hostility to/towards: There is always some hostility to new technology. 2) [uncountable] unfriendly or… … English dictionary

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