What is another word for hostile?
1119 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ hˈɒsta͡ɪl], [ hˈɒstaɪl], [ h_ˈɒ_s_t_aɪ_l]Table of Contents
Similar words for hostile:- aggressive (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- angry (adjective)
- antagonistic, mean (adjective)
- antipathetic (adjective)
- averse (adjective)
- bellicose (adjective)
- belligerent (adjective)
- black (adjective)
- chill (adjective)
- chilly (adjective)
- conflicting (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- destructive (adjective)
- different (adjective)
- disaffected (adjective)
- discordant (adjective)
- factious (adjective)
- fighting (adjective)
- forbidding (adjective)
- glacial (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- icy (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- indisposed (adjective)
- inhospitable (adjective)
- inimical (adjective)
- jaundiced (adjective)
- malevolent (adjective)
- malign (adjective)
- ominous (adjective)
- opposed/opposing (adjective)
- opposite (adjective)
- sarcastic (adjective)
- stony (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- truculent (adjective)
- unadvantageous (adjective)
- unfavorable (adjective)
- unhospitable (adjective)
- unlike (adjective)
- unsociable (adjective)
- venomous (adjective)
- up in arms (adverb)
- antagonistic (noun)
- antipathetic (noun)
- antipathetical (noun)
- dirty (noun)
- enemy (noun)
- head-on (noun)
- hostile (noun)
- other synonyms
- belligerent
- cynical
- enraged
- unfriendly
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Hostile:
adj.
•aggressive (adjective)- assertive,
- domineering,
- combative,
- warlike,
- determined,
- forward,
- aggressive,
- pushy,
- offensive,
- militant.
- cold,
- contentious,
- virulent,
- allergic,
- disapproving,
- surly,
- dour,
- competitive,
- nasty,
- unkind,
- malignant,
- catty,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- Oppugnant,
- sour,
- rancorous,
- unfriendly,
- vitriolic,
- spiteful,
- unsympathetic,
- alien,
- hateful,
- ornery,
- unpropitious,
- Viperous,
- adverse,
- bitter,
- argumentative.
- ill disposed,
- most ill-disposed,
- un-friendlier,
- more ill disposed,
- most disliking,
- most illdisposed,
- un friendliest,
- un eager,
- most uneager,
- more ill-disposed,
- dis liking,
- un-willing,
- illdisposed,
- more uneager,
- un friendlier,
- dis-liking,
- un-friendly,
- un willing,
- more illdisposed,
- un-eager,
- most ill disposed,
- un friendly,
- un-friendliest,
- dis-inclined,
- dis inclined,
- more disliking.
- more battling,
- have it for,
- have bone pick,
- flip,
- have chip shoulder,
- hot tempered,
- on outs,
- have a bone pick,
- have in for,
- have bone to pick,
- have chip on shoulder,
- most battling,
- flippest.
- in different,
- more ungenial,
- in-different,
- with-drawn,
- un-happier,
- most ungenial,
- re served,
- re-served,
- un happier,
- un-emotional,
- unhappy,
- un genial,
- more uncompanionable,
- un-genial,
- solitary,
- de-pressing,
- un welcoming,
- un-responsive,
- un happy,
- with drawn,
- un emotional,
- most uncompanionable,
- more unwelcoming,
- un-companionable,
- de pressing,
- un-welcoming,
- un-happy,
- most unwelcoming,
- un responsive,
- un happiest,
- un-happiest,
- un companionable.
- clamoring,
- loath,
- conflicting,
- dissonant,
- bickering,
- rioting,
- brawling,
- cacophonous,
- dissenting,
- colliding,
- dissident,
- harsh,
- rowing,
- clashing,
- tense,
- raucous,
- Squabbling,
- warring,
- feuding,
- discordant,
- differing.
- more dissentient,
- obstinate,
- re verse,
- headstrong,
- most anti,
- re-verse,
- anti-thetical,
- in subordinate,
- more recusant,
- in tractable,
- most wrongheaded,
- Non-conforming,
- most recusant,
- stubborn,
- in-subordinate,
- more clashing,
- most contrariant,
- most clashing,
- most dissentient,
- more anti,
- more paradoxical,
- in consistent,
- non conformist,
- in-consistent,
- dis-sentient,
- nonconformist,
- more wrongheaded,
- dis sentient,
- most paradoxical,
- head strong,
- in-tractable,
- wayward,
- non conforming,
- more contrariant,
- more reverse,
- anti thetical,
- most reverse.
- dis loyal,
- dis-contented,
- dis-affected,
- dis contented,
- most discontented,
- dis satisfied,
- un-submissive,
- dis-loyal,
- un-compliant,
- more unsubmissive,
- dis affected,
- un submissive,
- un compliant,
- most unsubmissive,
- dis-satisfied.
- inharmonious,
- tuneless,
- discord,
- fricative,
- unmelodious,
- unharmonious,
- unmusical,
- quarrelsome,
- jarring.
- more estranged,
- tumultous-tumultuous,
- more insurrectionary,
- most contending,
- most insurrectionary,
- most estranged,
- tumultous tumultuous,
- insurgent,
- tumultoustumultuous,
- more troublemaking,
- more contending,
- most troublemaking.
- more brawling,
- more hawkish,
- more disputative,
- un-beatable,
- most warmongering,
- more skirmishing,
- more tilting,
- more warmongering,
- most disputative,
- most sparring,
- dis putative,
- most brawling,
- more fencing,
- most tilting,
- fencing,
- more boxing,
- most jousting,
- re-solute,
- most hawkish,
- un beatable,
- most boxing,
- more jousting,
- more jingoistic,
- most skirmishing,
- dis-putative,
- ready fight,
- re solute,
- more sparring,
- most jingoistic,
- most fencing,
- most wrestling,
- more wrestling.
- fore boding,
- most off putting,
- more foreboding,
- most foreboding,
- unapproachable,
- most offputting,
- dis agreeable,
- dis-agreeable,
- more off-putting,
- un-approachable,
- more offputting,
- most glowering,
- off putting,
- fore-boding,
- offputting,
- most off-putting,
- un pleasant,
- un approachable,
- un-pleasant,
- more off putting,
- more glowering.
- illmannered,
- more nocent,
- in auspicious,
- un-propitious,
- un-healthy,
- most unpromising,
- un gracious,
- un healthier,
- un luckiest,
- un-gracious,
- dis respectful,
- un luckier,
- in-auspicious,
- un-healthiest,
- inauspicious,
- ill mannered,
- un wholesome,
- un-lucky,
- un promising,
- un-wholesome,
- un healthy,
- most nocent,
- more unpromising,
- un-fortunate,
- dis-respectful,
- un-promising,
- un-luckiest,
- un fortunate,
- un propitious,
- un lucky,
- un-luckier,
- un healthiest.
- more uninclined,
- un inclined,
- un caring,
- un-caring,
- most uninclined,
- in disposed,
- un-inclined,
- in-disposed.
- in-hospitable,
- un congenial,
- more unreceptive,
- un-receptive,
- most unreceptive,
- un generous,
- in hospitable,
- un-generous,
- un-congenial,
- un receptive.
- in-tolerant,
- un indifferent,
- dis-approving,
- more grudging,
- most unindifferent,
- most disapproving,
- pre-conceived,
- more warped,
- pre conceived,
- un fairest,
- un-fairer,
- in tolerant,
- un-indifferent,
- pre possessed,
- un fairer,
- pre-possessed,
- onesided,
- most grudging,
- un-fairest,
- more unindifferent,
- more preconceived,
- un-fair,
- un fair,
- most warped,
- dis approving,
- most preconceived,
- one sided,
- more disapproving.
- corrosive,
- evil,
- venomous,
- sinister,
- murderous,
- bad-natured,
- perfidious,
- baleful,
- wicked,
- foul,
- mean,
- treacherous,
- baneful,
- vindictive,
- Black-hearted,
- churlish,
- vicious,
- ill-natured,
- hurtful.
- ill boding,
- most precursive,
- pre-monitory,
- most premonitory,
- more doomful,
- most doomful,
- most malificent,
- more premonitory,
- more malificent,
- most presaging,
- portentous,
- pre-cursive,
- pre monitory,
- illboding,
- Ill-boding,
- ill fated,
- pre cursive,
- more precursive,
- more presaging,
- illfated.
- most enemy,
- more denying,
- in-compatible,
- most disputing,
- de fending,
- against grain,
- more gainsaying,
- more disputing,
- more controverting,
- dis agreeing,
- more facing,
- more crossing,
- in compatible,
- more repelling,
- more disputed,
- more defending,
- most facing,
- most repelling,
- most protesting,
- ex posing,
- more obstructive,
- most combating,
- at crosspurposes,
- most opposed,
- more objecting,
- more combating,
- more protesting,
- most objecting,
- most controverting,
- most denying,
- most exposing,
- more enemy,
- most obstructive,
- de-fending,
- most defending,
- most gainsaying,
- restrictive,
- pro testing,
- most crossing,
- most disputed,
- more exposing,
- pro-testing,
- ex-posing,
- dis-agreeing.
- more chaffing,
- more cussed,
- most needling,
- most cussed,
- more weisenheiming,
- smartalecky,
- most chaffing,
- needling,
- most twitting,
- more needling,
- more twitting,
- most ironical,
- dis illusioned,
- most taunting,
- most weisenheiming,
- dis-illusioned,
- most snarling,
- more taunting,
- more snarling.
- in-exorable,
- in flexible,
- un forgiving,
- un-compassionate,
- un compassionate,
- un-forgiving,
- in-flexible.
- fretful,
- tenebrific,
- noncooperative,
- dark,
- glum,
- uncooperative,
- pouty,
- morose,
- cynical,
- Moping,
- sulky,
- long-faced,
- crabby,
- gloomy,
- dejected,
- sourpussed,
- melancholy,
- irascible,
- dissociable,
- grim,
- scowling,
- cross,
- grouchy,
- frowning,
- petulant,
- beetle-browed,
- moody,
- grumpy,
- broody,
- cantankerous,
- glowering.
- in human,
- more browbeating,
- in-humane,
- co-wing,
- more vituperous,
- in-human,
- most vituperous,
- more cowing,
- most terrorizing,
- more terrorizing,
- co wing,
- most invective,
- most cowing,
- most browbeating,
- more invective.
- in advisable,
- dis advantageous,
- most discommodious,
- in opportune,
- dis-commodious,
- in convenient,
- in-advisable,
- un suited,
- un-fit,
- more discommodious,
- dis commodious,
- un-seemlier,
- un-favorable,
- dis-advantageous,
- illadvised,
- un favorable,
- un-suited,
- un seemlier,
- un-timelier,
- un timelier,
- in-felicitous,
- un-seemliest,
- un timely,
- un-seasonable,
- un seasonable,
- in-expedient,
- un-timeliest,
- in-opportune,
- un seemliest,
- un seemly,
- in expedient,
- in felicitous,
- un timeliest,
- un-timely,
- in-convenient.
- dis sonant,
- more disharmonious,
- dis harmonious,
- most mismatched,
- in-congruous,
- in congruous,
- un likest,
- mis matched,
- more mismatched,
- dis-harmonious,
- un-equal,
- un liker,
- un-liker,
- dis-sonant,
- un-likest,
- mis-matched,
- most disharmonious,
- un equal.
- more easy-going,
- more unneighborly,
- more nongregarious,
- up-pity,
- un-communicative,
- most easy going,
- most unforthcoming,
- most unneighborly,
- re-tiring,
- un social,
- laidback,
- re tiring,
- more unforthcoming,
- un-bending,
- recessive,
- more easy going,
- un neighborly,
- un-sociable,
- un bending,
- up pity,
- non gregarious,
- most brooding,
- more unsocial,
- un sociable,
- more brooding,
- un-social,
- un-neighborly,
- most nongregarious,
- un forthcoming,
- stuckup,
- un-forthcoming,
- most unsocial.
adv.
•up in arms (adverb)n.
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•
- damaging,
- ruinous,
- dangerous,
- harmful,
- injurious,
- hazardous,
- risky,
- attack,
- unsafe,
- disastrous,
- combatant,
- perilous.
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•
- attitude.
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•
- love.
Other synonyms:
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•
- lamely,
- forbidding,
- recreational,
- procedural,
- resistant,
- preventative,
- repugnant,
- saltwater,
- face saving,
- limp,
- rebellious,
- commemorative,
- maiden,
- bipolar,
- preventive,
- unprompted,
- parting,
- fierce,
- reciprocal,
- two-handed,
- token,
- adversarial,
- on-the-job,
- attempted.
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•
- paid,
- pugnacious,
- peacefully,
- rude,
- part-time,
- antisocial,
- two-step,
- official.
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•
- desperate,
- amateur.
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•
- personal.
- disobliging,
- wintry,
- hard-boiled,
- severely,
- stiff,
- sourly,
- stonily,
- brusque,
- stony-faced,
- offhand,
- coolly,
- stiffly.
- exceptional,
- reactionary,
- vehement,
- frenzied,
- Disaccordant,
- irritable,
- countervailing,
- daring,
- fractious,
- Rankling,
- resentment,
- anchoritic,
- dyspeptic,
- different,
- polar,
- in deadly embrace,
- Inconsonant,
- resist,
- cool,
- adversive,
- detached,
- balancing,
- antithetic,
- disgruntled,
- contradict,
- disenchanted,
- retaliatory,
- irked,
- troublous,
- reclusive,
- disproportionate,
- forlorn,
- unenthusiastic,
- Anchoretic,
- detrimental,
- querulous,
- incongruously,
- ill-wishing,
- unaccommodating,
- unruly,
- tumultuous,
- dismal,
- provocative,
- choleric,
- antipodean,
- contumacious,
- Aversely,
- opposed to,
- unsuited,
- disadvantageous,
- bloodthirsty,
- single combat,
- ferocious,
- counterworking,
- curmudgeonly,
- unpeaceable,
- Battling,
- soldierlike,
- retributory,
- contradictory,
- immiscible,
- wild,
- disputatious,
- jealous,
- contention,
- hostilely,
- envious,
- chauvinistic,
- deponent,
- frigid,
- animosity,
- maddening,
- Counteracting,
- Renitent,
- oppositely,
- reserved,
- converse,
- formal,
- sponsor,
- frozenly,
- at daggers drawn,
- set against,
- gaunt,
- Monomachy,
- savage,
- Cold-hearted,
- Duello,
- peeved,
- acid,
- infuriating,
- opposition,
- hermitic,
- bloody,
- frosty,
- froward,
- desert,
- hostility,
- Contradicting,
- counteractive,
- oppose,
- perverse,
- inconsistently,
- intrusive,
- rebelliously,
- gutsy,
- negative,
- retaliative,
- militaristic,
- embittered,
- impertinent,
- ugly,
- negate,
- bare,
- audacious,
- illy,
- witness,
- acerbic,
- irritated,
- displeased,
- incongruous,
- punitive,
- barren,
- sword,
- warfare,
- difficult,
- crotchety,
- obstreperous,
- callous,
- vengefully,
- full of hate,
- furious,
- disagreeing,
- uncaring,
- Irksome,
- defend,
- turbulent,
- Unamiable,
- miserable,
- tempestuous,
- oppositive,
- freezingly,
- wretched,
- disinclined,
- indignation,
- attacking,
- repel,
- Cojuror,
- short-tempered,
- breakaway,
- ire,
- begrudging,
- dissentious,
- withstand,
- vexing,
- barbarous,
- Inimically,
- recalcitrant,
- con,
- oppositional,
- dreary,
- unyielding,
- cruel,
- confrontational,
- intractable,
- retributive,
- in conflict,
- haughty,
- reluctantly,
- discordantly,
- at enmity,
- unforgiving,
- desolate,
- unconformable,
- rigorous,
- despiteful,
- antagonize,
- spunky,
- ill-tempered,
- contrast,
- cross-grained,
- militantly,
- rivalry,
- impede,
- satisfaction,
- bad,
- uncontrollable,
- invidious,
- bold,
- injuriously,
- Unhospitable,
- Piqued,
- squared off,
- sanguinary,
- destructively,
- bloody-minded,
- remote,
- indicator,
- sore,
- dim,
- crisp,
- uninhabitable,
- rival,
- thwart,
- variant,
- scathing,
- not easy,
- caustic,
- choler,
- uninviting,
- severe,
- controvert,
- stark,
- fight,
- bleak,
- belligerently,
- detestable,
- impersonal,
- Earwitness,
- counteract,
- block,
- discrepant,
- distant,
- disparaging,
- contravene,
- competition,
- antithesis,
- adversative,
- Inaccordant,
- unpleasant,
- riled,
- strange,
- inconsistent,
- resentful,
- worked up,
- brazen,
- incensing,
- crabbed,
- assailant,
- chauvinist,
- mordant,
- unconnected,
- splenetic,
- trying,
- insubordinate,
- Malignly,
- threatening,
- conflict,
- Compensating,
- critical,
- unsatisfied,
- disagree,
- irritating,
- counteractant,
- disagreeable,
- annoyed,
- unsmiling,
- eremitic,
- defiant,
- standoffish,
- inverse,
- diametric,
- Unconsonant,
- antagonistically,
- unpacific,
- unemotional,
- gelid,
- withdrawn,
- jingoish,
- detrimentally,
- denigrating,
- out of accord,
- menacing,
- contrasting,
- aggressiveness,
- coldly,
- rough,
- trigger-happy,
- roughly,
- aggravating,
- out of whack,
- sanguineous,
- material witness,
- antagonism,
- indignant,
- antonymous,
- Digladiation,
- deserted,
- adversary,
- enmity,
- obverse,
- disobedient,
- retiring,
- counter,
- differ,
- acrid,
- affair of honor,
- xenophobic,
- confront,
- flinty,
- unimpassioned,
- violent,
- eyewitness,
- unflattering,
- foe,
- contrarily,
- refractory,
- face-saving,
- stressful,
- counterpoised,
- satiric,
- mortal,
- trenchant,
- untoward,
- jingo,
- saber rattling,
- full of fight,
- hot-tempered,
- Contradistinct,
- feud,
- jingoist,
- merciless,
- averse,
- indisposed,
- fury,
- compare,
- counterbalancing,
- dare,
- confronting,
- jangling,
- competing,
- anger,
- testy,
- offish,
- wrath,
- soldierly,
- feral,
- irate,
- Envenomed,
- aloof,
- inappropriate,
- divergent,
- Coldish,
- troublesome,
- gainsay,
- agitated,
- poisonous,
- in hostile array,
- challenging,
- bad-tempered,
- dissatisfied,
- irrelevant,
- unpeaceful,
- freezing,
- incompatible,
- state's evidence,
- frostily,
- antagonist,
- raging,
- revolutionary,
- unforthcoming,
- glacially,
- antipodal,
- duel,
- at variance,
- Riling,
- rebel,
- provoked,
- aggression,
- mutinous,
- self-willed,
- stormy,
- acrimonious,
- dissenter,
- unresponsive,
- currish,
- passage of arms,
- adversely,
- foreign,
- prejudicial,
- grating,
- reverse,
- incensed,
- contrarious,
- contrariety,
- contrapositive,
- ice-cold,
- diametrically opposed,
- contest,
- annoying,
- Overthwart,
- appeal to arms,
- upset,
- contend,
- Contrasted,
- cranky,
- icily,
- peevish,
- antithetical,
- exasperating.
Paraphrases for Hostile:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
antagonistic, unfriendly, inhospitable.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
harsh, opposing, unfavourable, unfavorable, rival, Enemies, offensive, inclement, anti-, tough, anti, opposed, subversive, resistant.
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Noun, singular or mass
aggression, adversary.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
inimical, bellicose, adversarial, confrontational, belligerent, aggressive, enemy, adverse, disadvantageous, averse, negative, opposite.
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Noun, singular or mass
hostility, belligerent, aggressive, antagonism, enemy, enmity, animosity.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Hostile:
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adj.
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antagonistic, mean
helping, kind, nice, hospitable, pleasant, gentle, favorable, warm, helpful, hot, good, welcoming, Aiding, agreeable, sympathetic, wonderful.
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Other antonyms:
approving, complying, germane, devoted, gracious, innocent, nonfatal, advantageous, accepting, beneficial, unaggressive, nonlethal, amiable, supportive, good-tempered, positive, nonaggressive, loving, pertinent, convivial, tolerant, reconcilable, proper, apropos, civil, akin, unresistant, relevant, benignant, gregarious, appropriate, useful, nondestructive, inoffensive, essential, harmless, innocuous, good-natured.
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antagonistic, mean
Homophones for Hostile:
Hyponym for Hostile:
n.
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group
soldiery, troops, military personnel.
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