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hostile
/ˈhɑstəl/
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What does hostile mean?
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.
- Aggressive; antagonistic.
- Unwilling.
More meanings (2)
adjective
- Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
noun
- An enemy.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhɑstəl/
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There was a reply that the intent fighters did not care for what happened rearward saving that no hostile bayonets appeared there.
Even the magistrates, hostile as they are to the institution of the jury, have had to recognise the exactness of the assertion.
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The outline of the scheme of civil society is in a high degree hostile to the growth and maturity of human virtue.
Height was always of the utmost importance, as the Italian ships were used for bombing enemy towns and must evade hostile gunfire.
After the community has advanced to settled habits of life, wife-capture from hostile tribes becomes impracticable as a customary source of supply.