hostile
/ˈhɒstʌɪl/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈhɒstʌɪl/
hostile
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- Short i vowel
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- Final e often stays silent
hos - tile -> hostile
Myanmar meaning
(adj) ရန်လိုသော။အပြင်းအထန်ဆန့်ကျင်သော။ ရန်သူ။ကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခု၏အစုရှယ်ယာများကို၎င်းကမလိုလားဘဲဝယ်ယူသောအပိုင်စီးရန်ကြိုးပမ်းမှု။
Full entry
hostile /'hɒstaÇl; US -tl/ adj
၁။ ~ (to/towards sb/sth ) (က) ရန်လိုသော။ a hostile crowd/look/attitude ❍ get a very hostile reception/ response ❍ She found his manner towards her distinctly hostile. (ခ) အပြင်းအထန်ဆန့်ကျင် [သော]။ be hostile to reform.
၂။ ရန်သူ။ hostile aircraft.
၃။ (commerce ) ကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခု၏ အစုရှယ်ယာများကို ၎င်းက မလိုလားဘဲဝယ်ယူသော (အပိုင်စီးရန်ကြိုးပမ်းမှု)။ a hostile take-over bid ❍ the group's hostile £138m bid for a construction company.
More examples
- The minister found himself in the middle of a hostile crowd.
- [hostile to/towards] : She was openly hostile to him.
- [a hostile reception/reaction/response] : The appearance of more police provoked a hostile reaction from the protesters.
- Public reaction to the war was generally hostile.
- [hostile to/towards] : The local community was hostile to plans for a new motorway.
- The northern half of the island was controlled by hostile forces.
- Their plane was now flying over hostile territory.
- Species that live in the most hostile environments on the planet
- A hostile economic climate
- A hostile takeover bid
Synonyms
antagonistic, aggressive, intimidating, unfriendly, unreceptive, unsympathetic, argumentative, adverse, alien, allergic, anti, at odds, at swords' points, at war, bellicose, belligerent, bitter, catty, chill, cold, competitive, contentious, contrary, disapproving, dour, harsh, hateful, ill-disposed, in an uproar, in opposition to, in the midst of battle, inhospitable, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mean, militant, nasty, opposed, opposite, oppugnant, ornery, prepared for war, pugnacious, rancorous, scrappy, sour, spiteful, surly, tough, unfavorable, unkind, unpleasant, unpropitious, unsociable, unwelcoming, up in arms, viperous, virulent, vitriolic, warlike
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