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hostile - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | hostile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, mean |
| Synonyms: | adverse, alien, allergic, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty*, chill*, cold*, competitive, contentious, contrary, dour, hateful, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, ornery*, pugnacious, sour*, spiteful, surly, unfavorable, unfriendly, unkind, unpropitious, unsociable, unsympathetic, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike, anti*, disapproving, ill-disposed, oppugnant, rancorous, scrappy, unwelcoming |
| Notes: | a hostel is inexpensive supervised lodging, while hostile means characterized by enmity or ill will or very unfriendly or antagonistic |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, friendly, gentle, kind, nice, welcoming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | averse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | opposing |
| Synonyms: | afraid, allergic, antagonistic, antipathetic, contrary, disinclined, hesitant, hostile, indisposed, inimical, loath, nasty, perverse, reluctant, unfavorable, unfriendly, unwilling, disliking, having no use for, ill-disposed, uneager |
| Antonyms: | liking, loving, sympathetic, caring |
| Main Entry: | belligerent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, argumentative |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, antagonistic, ardent, bellicose, cantankerous, combative, contentious, fierce, fighting, flip, hostile, hot, hot-tempered, mean, militant, ornery, pugnacious, quarrelsome, truculent, warlike, at loggerheads, battling, have a bone to pick, have chip on shoulder, have it in for, on the outs, scrappy |
| Antonyms: | cooperative, helping, kind, nice |
| Main Entry: | contrary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic; opposite |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipathetic, antipodal, antithetical, balky, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contumacious, converse, counter, diametric, discordant, dissident, froward, headstrong, hostile, inconsistent, inimical, insubordinate, intractable, negative, nonconforming, nonconformist, obstinate, opposed, ornery*, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, reverse, stubborn, unruly, wayward, anti, antipodean, contrariant, dissentient, paradoxical, recusant, wrongheaded |
| Antonyms: | accommodating, agreeing, alike, correspondent, harmonious, homogeneous, like, obliging, similar, concordant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disaffected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alienated, estranged |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, discontented, disloyal, dissatisfied, hostile, indifferent, mutinous, rebellious, seditious, unfriendly, uncompliant, unsubmissive |
| Antonyms: | contented, happy, pleased |
| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
| Synonyms: | alienated, belligerent, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, contending, estranged, insurrectionary, troublemaking |
| Antonyms: | agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | fighting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | aggressive, warlike |
| Synonyms: | angry, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, boxing, combative, contentious, determined, disputatious, fencing, ferocious, hostile, martial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resolute, truculent, unbeatable, up in arms*, battling, brawling, contending, disputative, hawkish, jingoistic, jousting, militaristic, ready to fight, scrappy, skirmishing, sparring, tilting, under arms, warmongering, wrestling |
| Antonyms: | peaceloving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forbidding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ominous, daunting |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, grim, hostile, menacing, odious, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough, ugly, unapproachable, unfriendly, unpleasant, glowering, off-putting |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, undaunting |
| Main Entry: | inhospitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfriendly |
| Synonyms: | brusque, cold, cool, hostile, rude, short, uncongenial, unfavorable, ungenerous, unkind, unsociable, unreceptive, unwelcoming |
| Antonyms: | friendly, generous, hospitable, kind |
| Main Entry: | inimical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, contrary |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipathetic, destructive, disaffected, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, injurious, noxious, opposed, pernicious, repugnant, unfavorable, unfriendly, ill-disposed, inimicable, oppugnant, unwelcoming |
| Antonyms: | friendly, hospitable, kind |
| Main Entry: | jaundiced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tainted, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, distorted, envious, hostile, intolerant, jealous, one-sided, opprobrious, partial, partisan, prepossessed, skeptical, spiteful, suspicious, unfair, unfriendly, yellow, disapproving, grudging, preconceived, resentful, tendentious, unindifferent, warped |
| Antonyms: | clean, fresh, unbiased, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | malevolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hateful |
| Synonyms: | baleful, catty*, dirty, evil, evil-minded, hellish, hostile, lousy, malicious, malign, malignant, murder, murderous, pernicious, poison, rough, sinister, spiteful, tough, vengeful, vicious, vindictive, waspish, wicked, bad-natured, despiteful, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | amiable, harmless, kind, liking, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, injurious |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, antipathetic, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hateful, hostile, inimical, malevolent, malignant, noxious, pernicious, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked, despiteful, malefic, maleficent, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | benign, helpful, nice, aiding |
| Main Entry: | martial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having to do with armed hostilities |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, hostile, military, pugnacious, warlike, soldierly |
| Antonyms: | civil, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | ominous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | menacing, foreboding |
| Synonyms: | apocalyptic, baleful, baneful, dangerous, dark, dire, direful, dismal, doomed, fateful, fearful, forbidding, gloomy, grim, haunting, hostile, ill-boding, ill-fated, impending, inauspicious, inhospitable, lowering, malign, perilous, portentous, prescient, prophetic, sinister, suggestive, threatening, unfriendly, unlucky, unpropitious, augural, clouded, doomful, malefic, malificent, minatory, precursive, premonitory, presaging, unpromising |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, happy, lucky, promising, propitious |
| Main Entry: | opposed/opposing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, against |
| Synonyms: | allergic*, antipathetic, antithetical, averse, clashing, conflicting, confronting, contrary, counter, crossing, defensive, disagreeing, enemy, facing, hostile, incompatible, inimical, irreconcilable, opposite, repelling, restrictive, rival, warring, against the grain, anti*, antonymous, at cross-purposes, at odds, battling, combating, controverting, defending, denying, disputed, disputing, dissentient, exposing, gainsaying, in opposition, objecting, obstructive, protesting, up against |
| Antonyms: | assisting, compatible, helping, similar, aiding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opposite |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlike, conflicting; completely different |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antagonistic, antipodal, antithetical, contradictory, contrary, corresponding, counter, crosswise, diametric, different, dissimilar, diverse, facing, hostile, inconsistent, independent, inimical, inverse, irreconcilable, obverse, opposed, ornery*, polar, repugnant, retrograde, reverse, reversed, separate, unconnected, unrelated, antipodean, contrapositive, contrasted, diametrically opposed, differing, flip-side, fronting, paradoxical, unalike, unsimilar, violative, vis-รก-vis |
| Antonyms: | compatible, like, similar |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sarcastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, mocking in speech |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acid, acrimonious, arrogant, austere, backhanded, biting, bitter, brusque, captious, carping, caustic, contemptuous, corrosive, cutting, cynical, derisive, disillusioned, disparaging, disrespectful, evil, hostile, irascible, mean, mordant, offensive, ornery*, salty, sardonic, satirical, saucy*, scorching, scornful, scurrilous, severe, sharp, sneering, trenchant, acerb, chaffing, contumelious, cussed, ironical, needling, smart-alecky, snarling, taunting, twitting, weisenheiming |
| Antonyms: | kind, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stony |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hard, icy in appearance, response |
| Synonyms: | adamant, blank, callous, chilly, cold, cold-blooded, cruel, expressionless, firm, frigid, hard-boiled*, hardened, heartless, hostile, indifferent, inexorable, inflexible, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, rough, tough, unfeeling, unforgiving, unrelenting, unresponsive, unsympathetic, coldhearted, uncompassionate |
| Antonyms: | friendly, soft, warm, smiling |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sullen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brooding, upset |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, cheerless, churlish, crabby*, cross, cynical, dismal, dour, dull, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glum, gruff, grumpy*, heavy, hostile, inert, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, out of sorts*, peevish, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, querulous, saturnine, silent, somber, sour, stubborn, sulky, surly, tenebrous, ugly, unsociable, uptight*, crabbed, glowering, ill-humored, pouting, pouty, sourpussed, sulking, tenebrific |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, happy, grinning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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