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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.
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