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hostile

ˈhɑstəl
WordNet
Under the watchful eye of Minerva, Odysseus and the hostile Ithacans reconcile. They fall into each other's arms. The print is part of an album.
Under the watchful eye of Minerva, Odysseus and the hostile Ithacans reconcile. They fall into each other's arms. The print is part of an album.
  1. (adj) hostile
    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"
  2. (adj) hostile
    not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally "hostile naval and air forces"
  3. (adj) hostile
    very unfavorable to life or growth "a hostile climate","an uncongenial atmosphere","an uncongenial soil","the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
  4. (adj) hostile
    characterized by enmity or ill will "a hostile nation","a hostile remark","hostile actions"
  5. (adj) hostile
    impossible to bring into friendly accord "hostile factions"
  6. (n) hostile
    troops belonging to the enemy's military forces "the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles"
Illustrations
Soldiers compete on two hostile galleys. Some drowning people in the water. Top right: 8. B.
Soldiers compete on two hostile galleys. Some drowning people in the water. Top right: 8. B.
Five Indians place arrows in the ground along the road leading out of a hostile village. According to the Latin title, this is the way to declare war on the enemy.
Five Indians place arrows in the ground along the road leading out of a hostile village. According to the Latin title, this is the way to declare war on the enemy.
In the night an Indian village is attacked by a hostile tribe. The Indians are in their huts. There are holes in the roofs for smoke extraction. The attackers are aiming at the arrows.
In the night an Indian village is attacked by a hostile tribe. The Indians are in their huts. There are holes in the roofs for smoke extraction. The attackers are aiming at the arrows.
John Bull (Great Britain) like a shining sun, the happy and safe center of a hostile solar system. It is surrounded by its satellites or planets: all kinds of enemies including the Corsican comet (Napoleon), the American electric ray (Torpedo) and the Dutch frog.
John Bull (Great Britain) like a shining sun, the happy and safe center of a hostile solar system. It is surrounded by its satellites or planets: all kinds of enemies including the Corsican comet (Napoleon), the American electric ray (Torpedo) and the Dutch frog.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Hostile
    An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. hostile
    Of or pertaining to an enemy: as, hostile ground.
  2. hostile
    Of inimical character or tendency; having or exhibiting enmity or antagonism; antagonistic: as, a hostile manifesto; hostile criticism.
  3. hostile
    Synonyms Averse, Adverse, Inimical, Hostile; unfriendly, warlike. Averse applies to feeling, adverse to action: as, I was very averse to his going; an adverse vote; adverse fortune. Inimical expresses both feeling and action, generally in private affairs. Hostile also expresses both feeling and action, but applies especially to public affairs; where it applies to private matters, it expresses either strong or conspicuous action or feeling, or both, or all.
  4. (n) hostile
    An enemy: specifically, in the United States, a hostile Indian; an Indian who is engaged in warfare against the whites.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Hostile
    hos′til belonging to an enemy: showing enmity: warlike: adverse
Quotations
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Elizabeth Bowen
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Elizabeth Bowen
I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
Norman Mailer
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John Berger
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Seneca
George Washington
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
Idioms

Hostile takeover - If a company is bought out when it does not want to be, it is known as a hostile takeover.

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. hostilishostis.

Usage in the news

Fueling some of the latest outrage is the overt hostility of Bloomberg, a former smoker himself, to today's puffers. brooklynpaper.com

In interviews and attack ads, the presidential candidates have taken increasingly hostile swipes at each other as their nominating conventions approach and Mitt Romney prepares to select a running mate. pbs.org

They blast NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, calling him "intimidating," "hostile". cnn.com

As any good soldier will tell you, it's important to be prepared before entering a field of battle or dangerously hostile territory. coloradostatesman.com

SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has ruled against a Utah construction company accused of creating a hostile environment for black employees. standard.net

As Jay-Z brings the traveling road show known as Blueprint III to Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena Oct 27, he does so at a time when he is literally carrying both hip-hop and it's hostile captor—Rap Mu$ick, LLP—on his back. citypaper.com

For ages, nations have dreamed of building invulnerable shields to protect themselves from hostile forces. nytimes.com

Peachtree City is looking at yet another EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) filing by city employee Lisa Ficalore over what her complaint is calling a retaliatory and hostile work environment. thecitizennews.com

The high court said that while incidents that occurred before the law took effect cannot be retroactively remedied, they can be used in an overall hostile workplace case if the actions continued after June 2006. union-bulletin.com

Institutions should address bad behavior to prevent hostile work environments and protect patient safety, a new study says. ama-assn.org

The First Boston Corporation assured Salomon Inc yesterday that it would not help Revlon Inc in what many think could develop into a hostile takeover bid for the nation's biggest investment banking house. nytimes.com

The melvins little chudas congo hostile ambient takeover ipecac. prb.com

"In hostility to American history, the radical secularists insist that religious belief is inherently divisive and that public debate can only proceed on secular terms," ... cbsnews.com

It is hostile to books, hostile to people, hostile to the city of Paris. nybooks.com

Hostility to Israel is widespread and rising. spectator.org

Usage in scientific papers

Next we turn to an alternative local update rule termed hostile merging.
Models and average properties of scale-free directed networks

This is the basic idea underlying the concepts of GHZ (Gonzalez et al. 2001) and of the Rare Earth (Brownlee and Ward 2002): complex life in the Universe may be rare, not for intrinsic reasons (i.e. improbability of development of life on a planet), but for extrinsic ones, related to the hostile cosmic environment.
On the "Galactic Habitable Zone"

It should be noted that these measurements need to be done “in the field”, which in the case of millimeter radio telescopes generally means the hostile environment of a high mountain site.
Near-Field Radio Holography of Large Reflector Antennas

The implementation is not created in an hostile environment and any implementation error is only an unintended bug such as use of poor pseudo-random generators.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations

If the implementation is hostile, it can contain bugs which can not be easily detected by random sampling.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations

Usage in literature

He was broken by debauchery and torn this way and that by two violently hostile parties in his own camp. "A History of Sea Power" by William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

Strange to say the first to suffer from the outbreak of hostilities was Poland. "William Pitt and the Great War" by John Holland Rose

He did not grow therefore the less hostile. "Sir Walter Ralegh" by William Stebbing

Open hostilities began in June, 1763. "The Political History of England - Vol. X." by William Hunt

He saved the French garrison at Detroit from an attack by hostile Indians. "Four American Indians" by Edson L. Whitney

Onward they marched against that strong city, heedless of the hostile portents which they met on their way. "Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15)" by Charles Morris

A thrill of hostility shot through him. "The Kingdom Round the Corner" by Coningsby Dawson

The author of the Acts, true to his hostility to the Jews, of course brings them in as the persecutors. "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03" by Various

It was just possible that the ranchers might perpetrate some hostile act. "Desert Conquest" by A. M. Chisholm

I seen him lookin' hostile at you when you was quizzin' him in Balleau's. "'Drag' Harlan" by Charles Alden Seltzer

Usage in poetry
I cannot sing in happy mood
While hostile armies take their toll.
On these dark days I toil and brood
With starless midnight in my soul.
The Indian, leaning on his bow,
On hostile cliff, in desert drear,
Cast with less joy his glance below,
When came some friendly warrior near;
Night! of the dooms to which they sweep
What rumor from the battle's verge,
Where sun and sun their chariots urge
To leaguers of the hostile Deep?
Ah, fair to me your wheaten-colored coat,
And fair the darker velvet of your ear,
Ragged and scarred with old hostilities
That never taught you fear.
Not where the huge war steamer plys,
Through hostile seas resistless sweeping,
Led in her wake her battle prize,
To port her course triumphant keeping.
Folk in thrall to the enemy,
Vanquished, tilling a soil
Hateful and hostile grown;
Always wearily, warily,
Feeding deep in the heart
Passion they dare not own---