hostile
Meanings
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
- Of a hostile takeover.
Noun
- An enemy.
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Origin
- Borrowed from Middle French hostile, from Latin hostīlis, from hostis. Displaced Old English fēondlīċ.
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