Usually means: Bitter, deeply filled with resentment.
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  1. rancorous: Merriam-Webster
  2. rancorous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rancorous: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rancorous: Vocabulary.com
  5. rancorous: Wordnik
  6. rancorous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. rancorous: Wiktionary
  8. rancorous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. rancorous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Rancorous, rancorous: Dictionary.com
  11. rancorous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Rancorous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. rancorous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. rancorous: Rhymezone
  15. Rancorous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. rancorous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. rancorous: FreeDictionary.org
  18. rancorous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. rancorous: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rancorous: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rancorous)

▸ adjective:  Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.

Similar:
resentful, grudgeful, virulent, hateful, vituperative, rageful, ragesome, ragey, overbitter, wroth, more...

Opposite:
amicable, friendly, good-natured, harmonious, peaceable

Types:
spiteful, venomous, malicious, begrudging, bitter, acrimonious, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     maroon,     burgundy,     deep purple,     charcoal, more...

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Similar:
resentful, grudgeful, virulent, hateful, vituperative, rageful, ragesome, ragey, overbitter, wroth, more...

Opposite:
amicable, friendly, good-natured, harmonious, peaceable

Types:
spiteful, venomous, malicious, begrudging, bitter, acrimonious, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     maroon,     burgundy,     deep purple,     charcoal, more...



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