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Hostile   /hˈɑstəl/  /hɑstˈaɪl/   Listen
Hostile

adjective
1.
Characterized by enmity or ill will.  "A hostile remark" , "Hostile actions"
2.
Not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally.
3.
Impossible to bring into friendly accord.
4.
Very unfavorable to life or growth.  Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly.  "An uncongenial atmosphere" , "An uncongenial soil" , "The unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
5.
Unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business).  "Hostile tender offer" , "Hostile bid"
noun
1.
Troops belonging to the enemy's military forces.



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"Hostile" Quotes from Famous Books



... a policy acceptable to all shades of public opinion in the Colony, or even to discuss with him whether such a policy could have been invented. As for the administration of which Mr. Schreiner was the head, it was distinctly hostile to the policy inaugurated by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, which Sir Alfred represented. Its members, indeed, put every obstacle in the Governor's way, and this fact becoming known encouraged a certain spirit of rebellion among the Dutch section of the population. Neither one ...
— Cecil Rhodes - Man and Empire-Maker • Princess Catherine Radziwill
... princess in a far-away island among fanatically hostile Musselmen. Romantic love making amid amusing situations and ...
— The Eternal City • Hall Caine
... as the steers approached. The many pairs of hostile eyes and the long horns pointed in his direction were beginning to strike terror into his doggish heart, but his nerve was still good and he barked to ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... "I shall have a beautifully complete view of my adversaries. I shall sit down before the hostile town and fire away at them at a very pleasant distance. I shall just be able to lodge a shot in the hospital, should the enemy ever get possession of it, and as for the palace, I have ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... happens that an incomplete accord in music sounds raucous in a way; it leaves the mind disquieted, up to the moment when some note is added which procures a fusion of the hostile or coldly alien elements, like visitors who do not know one another and wait to be introduced. At once the ice is broken and harmony spreads from one member of the group to another. This moral chemistry ...
— Pierre and Luce • Romain Rolland


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