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Synonyms for animosity
ˌæn əˈmɒs ɪ tian·i·mos·i·ty

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Wiktionary1.0 / 1 vote

  1. animositynoun

    Synonyms:
    acrimony, enmity, opposition, hatred

    Antonyms:
    peace

  2. animositynoun

    Violent hatred leading to active opposition; active enmity; energetic dislike.

    Synonyms:
    hatred, enmity, acrimony, opposition

    Antonyms:
    peace

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. animosity

    Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion," Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. e., at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.

    Synonyms:
    anger, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, temper, vexation, wrath

    Antonyms:
    amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraint

    Preposition:
    Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. animosity, animus, bad bloodnoun

    a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

    Synonyms:
    animus, bad blood

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. animositynoun

    Synonyms:
    malignity, virulence, bitterness, rancor, hostility, hatred, hate, enmity, grudge, rankling, spleen, ill-will, heart-burning

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. animositynoun

    Synonyms:
    malignity, rancor, hatred, virulence

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "animosity":

    animus, enmity, hostility, ill-will, runner, hatred, hostile, resentment

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How to use animosity in a sentence?

  1. Oscar Donney:

    They had been taught that the enemy must be destroyed, they came from a different world where they learnt to give or follow orders, and not to create or build together. We knew there would be animosity and fear at the beginning.

  2. Herbert Butterfield:

    But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

  3. House Speaker John Boehner:

    The animosity between the White House and the prime minister is no secret in this town. But they've certainly made it worse in the last five weeks.

  4. Ronald Tate:

    My son didn't see color. .. We didn't have all this animosity between races, and my son didn't see that. He didn't have time for that. He was just mellow and laid back and didn't want to get into that.

  5. Mandela Barnes:

    President Donald Trump look at the incendiary remarks that This President has made, they centered an entire convention around creating more animosity and creating more division around what is going on in Kenosha.


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