hostility

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /hɒˈstɪlɪti/    美 /hɑˈstɪlɪti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being hostile. uncountable
    — My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.
  2. A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition. countable
    — As the revivals died down in the 1740s, the revivalist camp made concessions to their opponents, admonished prorevivalists who continued with the hostilities, and generally sought to heal divisions.

词形变化

hostilities plural

词汇关系

反义词
amity friendliness peace
衍生词
horizontal hostility nonhostility prehostility
相关词
hostile

词源

From Middle English hostilitie, hostilite, from Old French hostilité, from Latin hostīlitās. By surface analysis, hostile + -ity.
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