Synonym: aggressive, antagonistic, belligerent, bitter, militant, unfavorable, unfriendly. Antonym: amiable, favorable, friendly. Similar words: host, tile, ghost, hostage, still, whose, those, until. Meaning: ['hɑstl /'hɒstaɪl] n. troops belonging to the enemy's military forces. adj. 1. characterized by enmity or ill will 2. not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally 3. very unfriendly 4. impossible to bring into friendly accord 5. very unfavorable to life or growth 6. marked by features that oppose constructive treatment or development 7. unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business).
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61. Ever since I got better marks than Parker, he has been hostile to me.
62. Her disarming honesty immediately created a much less hostile atmosphere in the room.
63. Drinking may make a person feel relaxed and happy, or it may make her hostile, violent, or depressed.
64. It could engage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes.
65. The West has gradually relaxed its hostile attitude to this influential state.
66. Every day they had to run the gauntlet of hostile journalists on their way to school.
67. They were reluctant to take any step that might be regarded as hostile.
68. He was hostile toward me when I arrived.
69. In a hostile bid, very little will be forthcoming.
70. General have been openly hostile toward Doctors Community.
71. She shivered in the hostile, cold night air.
72. Some had been hostile but others were quite friendly.
73. The hostile bark put Miguel on his guard.
74. I knew his rigidly hostile views on abortion.
75. BAshley, unlike her brother,(http://sentencedict.com/hostile.html) is more depressed than hostile.
76. But shareholding rules make hostile bids hard to win.
77. On the other, there are politically hostile audiences.
78. Why should you be hostile to me?
79. I found him hostile to my entreaties.
80. It will be physical, confrontational and, quite likely, hostile.
81. The ships had travelled thousands of miles through hostile waters to converge in the Atlantic.
82. Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience.
83. A hostile demonstration by about 20,000 people near the nunciature earlier on Jan. 3 apparently influenced his decision.
84. Despite the hostile reaction, Prusiner continued his research, publishing papers and giving lectures that some called near-religious experiences.
85. Lydon was openly hostile to any kind of criticism of the project.
86. There have been a few hostile bids, most notably that by Paribas for a conglomerate, Navigation Mixte.
87. It was therefore a shock to face such hostile and patronising attitudes when I arrived.
88. Parts of the labour movement, however, remained or became hostile to the war.
89. In Antrim police had to rescue a man from a hostile crowd when he was pulled from his car.
90. And men can be bewildered by the co-existence of these apparently hostile forces.