State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities

A feeling or attitude of intense opposition to a person, group, or an action. After the strike, the hostility the workers felt toward management made the work place tense and unfriendly. back

A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth's overpopulation. Hostility is classified as active and passive; as (respectively) the feeling of a woman for her female friends, and that which she entertains for all the rest of her sex.

the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility"

anger, hatred, strong opposition back

Showing antagonism and opposition towards peoples and events.

violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

a state of deep-seated ill-will