[
US
/ˈhɑstəɫ, hɑˈstaɪɫ/
]
[ UK /hˈɒstaɪl/ ]
[ UK /hˈɒstaɪl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
hostile tender offer
hostile takeover
hostile bid -
characterized by enmity or ill will
hostile actions
a hostile remark
a hostile nation -
impossible to bring into friendly accord
hostile factions -
very unfavorable to life or growth
a hostile climate
an uncongenial atmosphere
an uncongenial soil
the unfriendly environment at high altitudes -
not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
hostile naval and air forces
NOUN
-
troops belonging to the enemy's military forces
the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles
How To Use hostile In A Sentence
- Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
- I didn't really like this new Annabelle at all: she wasn't her old friendly self, she was hostile, brash and rude and she clearly held a large grudge towards me.
- Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
- The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
- They fully deserve the hostile reception they receive. The Sun
- They must do the chores of life, must gain in strength and wisdom to cope with the hostile time of manhood.
- Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
- Gary Sinise plays a government scientist who may or may not be a replicant planted by a hostile alien race.
- It may act as such, by suppressing ovulation, but it also works by making the lining of the womb hostile to the newly conceived embryo.
- As the philosopher points out, ‘There is an aestheticism in masochism, while sadism is hostile to the aesthetic attitude.’