英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɒˈstɪlɪti/
• (General American) IPA: /hɑˈstɪlɪti/
• 韻: -ɪlɪti

名詞

hostility (countable and uncountable, plural hostilities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.

   My resentment and anger towards you caused hostility and a division between us.

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.

   • 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0-2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 3 April 2017:

     But with Goodison Park openly directing its full hostility towards Atkinson, Liverpool went ahead when Carroll turned in his first Premier League goal of the season after 70 minutes.

   • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 10 October 2021, retrieved 28 September 2013:

     The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.

2. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
   • 2006, Michael P. Young, Bearing Witness Against Sin:

     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.

同意語

• (state of being hostile): antagonism, opposition, enmity, animosity, antipathy, hatred, unfriendliness
• (military action): war, fighting, combat

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “state of being hostile”): amity, friendliness
• (antonym(s) of “military action”): peace

派生語

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