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hostile

English

  1. 🔊 unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
    “hostile takeover”
  2. 🔊 not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
    “hostile naval and air forces”
  3. 🔊 very unfavorable to life or growth
    “a hostile climate”
  4. 🔊 characterized by enmity or ill will
    “a hostile nation”
  5. 🔊 impossible to bring into friendly accord
    “hostile factions”
  6. 🔊 troops belonging to the enemy's military forces
    “the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 hostil hostile

Similar words

uncongenial unfriendly acrid adversary adversative adverse adversive against aggressive alien allergic antagonistic anti antipathetic antithetic antonymous argumentative at cross-purposes at loggerheads at odds at variance at war averse balancing