antagonistic |
1. adj. Contending or acting against. | |
hostile |
1. adj. not friendly, appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure | |
a hostile force | |
hostile intentions | |
a hostile country | |
hostile to a sudden change | |
2. adj. Aggressive, antagonistic. | |
3. adj. Of a hostile takeover. | |
Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report. | |
4. n. (chiefly in the plural) An enemy. | |
or |
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
unfriendly |
1. adj. Not friendly; hostile; mean. | |
2. adj. Unfavourable. | |
3. n. An enemy. | |
4. adv. in an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend | |
toward |
1. prep. In the direction of. | |
She moved toward the door. | |
2. prep. In relation to (someone or something). | |
What are your feelings toward him? | |
3. prep. For the purpose of attaining (an aim). | |
I'm saving money toward retirement. | |
4. prep. Located close to; near (a time or place). | |
Our place is over toward the station. | |
5. adj. Yielding, pliant; docile; ready or apt to learn; not froward. | |
6. adj. (obsolete) Future; to come. | |
7. adj. (dated) Approaching, coming near; impending; present, at hand. | |
8. adj. (obsolete, or archaic) Promising, likely. | |
others |
1. n. plural of other | |
2. n. Other people. | |
I treat others like I treat myself. | |
3. n. Those remaining after one or more people or items have left, or done something else, or been excluded. | |
Two decided to hide, the others surrendered. I kept two special jars and threw away all the others. | |
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of other | |
other |
1. adj. See other (determiner) below | |
2. adj. second. | |
I get paid every other week. | |
3. adj. Alien. | |
4. adj. Different. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right. | |
6. n. An other one, more often rendered as another. | |
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others. | |
7. n. The other one; the second of two. | |
One boat is not better than the other. | |
8. det. Not the one or ones previously referred to. | |
Other people would do it differently. | |
9. adv. Apart from; in the phrase "other than". | |
Other than that, I'm fine. | |
10. adv. (obsolete) Otherwise. | |
It shall none other be. — Chaucer. | |
If you think other. — Shakespeare. | |
11. v. To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien. | |
12. v. To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise. | |
menacing |
1. adj. Suggesting imminent harm. | |
2. adj. Threatening. | |
3. v. present participle of menace | |
4. n. The act of making menaces or threats. | |
menace |
1. n. A perceived threat or danger. | |
2. n. The act of threatening. | |
3. n. (informal) An annoying and bothersome person or thing. | |
4. v. To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. | |
to menace a country with war | |
5. v. To threaten (an evil to be inflicted). | |
6. v. To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize. | |