hostile
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French hostile, from Latin hostīlis, from hostis (“enemy”). Displaced Old English fēondlīċ.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɒstaɪl/, /ˈhɒstəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhɑstəl/, /ˈhɑstaɪl/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: hostel (one pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -ɒstəl
Adjective[edit]
hostile (comparative more hostile, superlative most hostile)
- Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- Synonyms: inimical, unfriendly
- a hostile force
- hostile intentions
- a hostile country
- hostile to a sudden change
- Aggressive, antagonistic.
- Unwilling
- Of a hostile takeover.
- Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report.
Synonyms[edit]
- antagonistic
- hateful
- See also Thesaurus:hostile
Antonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- hostility
- hostilely
- host
- See also Thesaurus:combative
Translations[edit]
belonging or appropriate to an enemy
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antagonistic
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Noun[edit]
hostile (plural hostiles)
Translations[edit]
an enemy
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French hostile, hostif (this form with a change of suffix), borrowed from Latin hostilis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
hostile (plural hostiles)
Synonyms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “hostile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
hostīle
References[edit]
- hostile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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