rancour

N ความขมขื่น  bitterness resentment kwam-kom-kuan

rancour

rancour |ˈraŋkə |(US rancor ) ▶noun [ mass noun ] bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long standing: he spoke without rancour. ORIGIN Middle English: via Old French from late Latin rancor ‘rankness ’ (in the Vulgate ‘bitter grudge ’), related to Latin rancidus ‘stinking ’.

rancour

rancour noun an atmosphere of festering rancour and distrust: bitterness, spite, hate, hatred, resentment, malice, ill will, malevolence, malignancy, animosity, antipathy, enmity, hostility, acrimony, venom, poison, vindictiveness, balefulness, vengefulness, vitriol, virulence, perniciousness, meanness, nastiness; informal bitchiness, cattiness; literary maleficence. ANTONYMS amicability.