English-Thai Dictionary

hostility

N ความ เป็น ศัตรู  การ มุ่งร้าย  animosity antagonism enmity friendliness kwam-pen-sad-tru

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOSTILITY

n.[L. hostilitas, from hostis, an enemy. ] 1. The state of war between nations or states; the actions of an open enemy; aggression; attacks of an enemy. These secret enmities broke out in hostilities.
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
We have carried on even our hostilities with humanity.
2. Private enmity; a sense less proper.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HOSTILITY

Hos *til "i *ty, n.; pl. Hostilities. Etym: [L. hostilitas: cf. F.hostilité. ]

 

1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

 

2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. We have showed ourselves generous adversaries... and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury.He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.

 

Syn. -- Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hostility

hos til i ty |häˈstilitē hɑˈstɪlədi | ▶noun ( pl. hostilities ) hostile behavior; unfriendliness or opposition: their hostility to all outsiders. • (hostilities ) acts of warfare: he called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French hostilité or late Latin hostilitas, from Latin hostilis (see hostile ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

hostility

hos |til ¦ity |hɒˈstɪlɪti | ▶noun ( pl. hostilities ) [ mass noun ] hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition: their hostility to all outsiders. • (hostilities ) acts of warfare: he called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. ORIGIN late Middle English: from French hostilité or late Latin hostilitas, from Latin hostilis (see hostile ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hostility

hostility noun 1 he glared at her with hostility: antagonism, unfriendliness, enmity, malevolence, malice, unkindness, rancor, venom, hatred, loathing; resentment, animosity, antipathy, acrimony, ill will, ill feeling; aggression, belligerence. 2 their hostility to the present regime: opposition, antagonism, aversion, resistance, dissidence. 3 (hostilities ) a cessation of hostilities: fighting, conflict, armed conflict, combat, aggression, warfare, war, bloodshed, violence.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hostility

hostility noun 1 the boy glared at her with hostility: antagonism, unfriendliness, bitterness, malevolence, malice, unkindness, spite, spitefulness, rancour, rancorousness, venom, wrath, anger, hatred; aggression, aggressiveness, belligerence, bellicosity, pugnaciousness, militancy, truculence, warlikeness. ANTONYMS friendliness. 2 there is a great amount of hostility to the present regime: opposition, antagonism, animosity, antipathy, animus, ill will, ill feeling, bad feeling, resentment, aversion, enmity, inimicalness. ANTONYMS approval. 3 (hostilities ) he called for an immediate cessation of hostilities: fighting, conflict, armed conflict, combat, warfare, war, bloodshed, violence, action, military action, battles, strife. ANTONYMS peace.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hostility

hos til i ty /hɑstɪ́ləti |hɔs -/→host 2 名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 U «個人 組織 集団などに対する /…の間での » 敵意 , 悪意 , 反抗心 «to , toward (s )/between » ▸ with open hostility to Japanese 日本人に対する敵意をあらわにして ▸ show [have ] no hostility toward A A 〈人 〉に悪意を持っていない 2 U 【考え 計画などに対する 】強い反対 [怒り ] (の表明 ) «to , toward (s )» ▸ feel hostility to drug trafficking 麻薬の不正取引に強く反対する 3 ｟かたく ｠〖-ties; 複数扱い 〗 «…との間の » 戦争 (状態 ), 戦闘 , 交戦 (warfare ) «between » ▸ open [suspend ] hostilities 開戦 [休戦 ]する