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# hostility

«hostility» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unfriendly, angry behaviour or feelings towards someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hostility, hostilities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unfriendly, angry behaviour or feelings towards someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#m1)

2) Strong opposition to an idea or plan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#m2)

3) (plural, hostilities, formal) Fighting in a war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows enemies or people who dislike each other: «the hostility between the two families». In history lessons «hostilities ended» means the fighting stopped. Phrases: open hostility, show hostility, hostility towards, the end of hostilities.

### examples

- There was hostility between the two rival teams. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#x1)
- The new boy felt the hostility of the older children at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#x2)
- The plan to close the park met with hostility from the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#x3)
- Hostilities ended when both sides signed a peace treaty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#x4)
- The cat looked at the puppy with hostility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#x5)
- Kindness can slowly melt hostility. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#x6)
- "Why is there always this hostility between us?" they said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/#x7)

### note

Adjective: hostile (unfriendly, or of an enemy). Opposite: friendliness, goodwill. The plural «hostilities» is mainly about war.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hostility» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hostility/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.