| 单词 | enmity |
| 释义 | enmity (once / 751 pages) n Enmity means intense hostility. If you're a football fanatic, you feel enmity for your opposing team. Enmity comes from the same Latin root as enemy, and means the state of being an enemy. If you have always hated someone, you have a history of enmity with that person. Enmity is stronger than antagonism or animosity, which imply competitive feeling but don't go all the way to enemy status. Hopefully you are a peacemaker and don't experience too much enmity in your life. WORD FAMILYenmity: enmities, inimical+/inimical: inimically USAGE EXAMPLESCertainly there was personal enmity between Hamilton and the bankrupt “voluptuary” he called Burr. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) His visit seemed to confirm the Cuban revolution’s survival after bitter US enmity, although Trump may try to turn the clock back. The Guardian(Dec 25, 2016) Critics of Mr. Karagodin and Memorial say that pointing fingers over the past revives old enmities and creates fissures in society. Wall Street Journal(Dec 16, 2016) 1n a state of deep-seated ill-will Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper antagonism, hostility Cold War a state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States latent hostility, tension feelings of hostility that are not manifest state of war, wara legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply cold wara state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare suspicionthe state of being suspected proxy wara war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate cloudsuspicion affecting your reputation state the way something is with respect to its main attributes 2n the feeling of a hostile person Syn|Hypo|Hyper hostility, ill will animosity, animus, bad blood a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility class feelingfeelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another antagonisman actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility aggression, aggressivenessa feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack belligerence, belligerencyhostile or warlike attitude or nature bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour, resentmenta feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will warpathhostile or belligerent mood heartburningintense resentment huffishness, sulkinessa feeling of sulky resentment grievance, grudge, scorea resentment strong enough to justify retaliation enviousness, envya feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another hate, hatred the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action |
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