hostile

hostile
    adj 1: characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation";
           "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" [ant: {amicable}]
    2: not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an
       ally; "hostile naval and air forces" [ant: {friendly}]
    3: impossible to bring into friendly accord; "hostile factions"
    4: very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an
       uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the
       unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: {hostile},
       {uncongenial}, {unfriendly}]
    5: unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target
       company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a
       business); "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer";
       "hostile bid"
    n 1: troops belonging to the enemy's military forces; "the
         platoon ran into a pack of hostiles" [ant: {friendly}]
    

Hostile \Hos"tile\, a. [L. hostilis, from hostis enemy: cf. F.
   hostile. See {Host} an army.]
   Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition
   of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to
   thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical;
   unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a
   hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

   Syn: Warlike; inimical; unfriendly; antagonistic; opposed;
        adverse; opposite; contrary; repugnant.
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Hostile \Hos"tile\, n.
   An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the
   whites; -- commonly in the plural. [Colloq.] --P. H.
   Sheridan.
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Aggressive \Ag*gres"sive\, a. [Cf. F. agressif.]
   1. Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing
      determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at
      the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or
      desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults;
      unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person,
      nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive
      basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his
      convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of
      {unaggressive}.
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            No aggressive movement was made.      --Macaulay.
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   2. Marked by self-confident ambition, vigorous
      competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive
      young executive.

   Syn: enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy
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   3. (Med., Biol.) Tending to grow or spread quickly; as, an
    

194 Moby Thesaurus words for "hostile":
      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,
      battling, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, bloodthirsty, bloody,
      bloody-minded, breakaway, caustic, chauvinist, chauvinistic,
      clashing, cold, colliding, combative, compensating, competitive,
      con, conflicting, confronting, contentious, contradicting,
      contradictory, contradistinct, contrapositive, contrarious,
      contrary, contrasted, converse, counter, counteractant,
      counteracting, counteractive, counterbalancing, counterpoised,
      countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety,
      dead against, despiteful, detrimental, differing, difficult, dim,
      disaccordant, disaffected, disagreeable, disagreeing, disapproving,
      discordant, discrepant, disenchanted, disharmonious, disinclined,
      displeased, disproportionate, dissentient, dissident, dissonant,
      divergent, dour, enemy, eyeball to eyeball, ferocious, fierce,
      fighting, fractious, full of fight, full of hate, grating, hard,
      harmful, hateful, hawkish, ill, immiscible, in opposition,
      inaccordant, incompatible, inconsistent, inharmonious,
      inhospitable, inimical, inverse, jangling, jarring, jingo,
      jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, loath, malevolent, malicious,
      malignant, martial, militant, militaristic, military, miserable,
      negative, nonconformist, noncooperative, not charmed, not easy,
      obstinate, obverse, offensive, opponent, opposed, opposing,
      opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, out of accord,
      out of whack, overthwart, perverse, pugnacious, put off,
      quarrelsome, rancorous, reactionary, recalcitrant, refractory,
      renitent, repugnant, resistant, reverse, revolutionary, rigorous,
      rival, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy,
      set against, sinister, soldierlike, soldierly, sore, sour,
      spiteful, squared off, stressful, trigger-happy, troublesome,
      troublous, truculent, trying, uncongenial, uncooperative,
      unfavorable, unfriendly, unharmonious, unpacific, unpeaceable,
      unpeaceful, unpropitious, unsympathetic, untoward, variant,
      venomous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike, warmongering, warring,
      wretched