| Main Entry: | grudge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard feelings |
Synonyms: |
animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bitterness, bone to pick, dislike, enmity, grievance, hate, hatred, ill will, injury, injustice, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, peeve, pet peeve, pique, rancor, resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, venom |
Antonyms: |
favor, forgiveness, good will |
| Main Entry: | grudge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel resentful; give unwillingly |
Synonyms: |
be reluctant, be stingy, begrudge, complain, covet, deny, envy, hold back, mind, pinch, refuse, resent, stint |
Antonyms: |
favor, forgive |
| Main Entry: | begrudge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wish that someone did not have |
Synonyms: |
be jealous, be reluctant, be stingy, covet, eat one's heart out, envy, grudge, pinch, resent, stint |
| Main Entry: | envy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | jealousy |
Synonyms: |
backbiting, coveting, covetousness, enviousness, evil eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudging, grudgingness, hatred, heartburn, ill will, invidiousness, jaundiced eye, lusting, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignity, opposition, prejudice, resentfulness, resentment, rivalry, spite |
| Notes: | jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person |
Antonyms: |
comfort, confidence, contentedness, good will, kindness, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | envy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be jealous of another |
Synonyms: |
be envious, begrudge, covet, crave, desire, die over, eat one's heart out, grudge, hanker, have hard feelings, hunger, long, lust, object to, resent, thirst, turn green, want, yearn |
Antonyms: |
be confident, be content |
| Main Entry: | feud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | major argument; estrangement |
Synonyms: |
altercation, bad blood, bickering, broil, combat, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, enmity, faction, falling out, fight, fracas, grudge, hostility, quarrel, rivalry, row, run-in, squabble, strife, vendetta |
Antonyms: |
agreement, comradeship, friendship |
| Main Entry: | hatred |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | severe dislike |
Synonyms: |
abhorrence, abomination, acrimony, alienation, allergy to, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, coldness, contempt, detestation, disapproval, disfavor, disgust, displeasure, distaste, enmity, envy, execration, grudge, hard feelings, hate, horror, hostility, ignominy, ill will, invidiousness, loathing, malevolence, malice, malignance, militancy, no use for, odium, pique, prejudice, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, spleen, venom |
Antonyms: |
like, liking, love, loving |
| Main Entry: | hostility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | antagonism, meanness |
Synonyms: |
abhorrence, aggression, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bellicosity, belligerence, bitterness, detestation, disaffection, enmity, estrangement, grudge, hatred, ill will, inimicality, malevolence, malice, opposition, rancor, resentment, spite, spleen, unfriendliness, venom, virulence, war, warpath |
Antonyms: |
agreeableness, friendliness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, niceness |
| Main Entry: | ill will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bitter feeling |
Synonyms: |
acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bad blood, bad blood, bad will, bitterness, blame, despite, dislike, enmity, envy, feud, grudge, hard feelings, hate, hatred, hatred; hard feelings, hostility, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, no love lost, no love lost, objection, rancor, resentment, spite, spitefulness, spleen, unfriendliness, venom |
Antonyms: |
friendliness, friendship, good feelings, good will, liking, loving |
| Main Entry: | jealousy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | envy |
Synonyms: |
backbiting, begrudging, covetousness, enviousness, evil eye, green-eyed monster, grudge, grudgingness, jaundiced eye, resentfulness, resentment, spite |