Usually means: Unfriendly and aggressive in nature.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word Hostile:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hostile: Merriam-Webster
  2. hostile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hostile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hostile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hostile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hostile, hostile: Wordnik
  7. hostile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hostile: Wiktionary
  9. hostile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hostile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hostile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hostile: Dictionary.com
  13. hostile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hostile (disambiguation), Hostile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hostile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hostile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hostile: Rhymezone
  18. hostile, hostile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hostile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hostile: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hostile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hostile: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hostile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hostile: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. hostile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hostile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hostile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hostile: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hostile: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hostile: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hostile)

▸ adjective:  Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
▸ adjective:  Aggressive; antagonistic.
▸ adjective:  Unwilling.
▸ adjective:  (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

Similar:
unfavourable, unfavorable, unfriendly, inhospitable, uncongenial, ill, unreconcilable, irreconcilable, head-on, antipathetic, more...

Opposite:
friendly, welcoming, amicable, cooperative, congenial

Types:
passive-aggressive, aggressive, aggressive-hostile, more...

Phrases:
hostile environment, hostile takeover, hostile takeovers, hostile act, hostile force, more...

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first, least, long, political, public, most, general, worst, whole, deadly, foreign

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Similar:
unfavourable, unfavorable, unfriendly, inhospitable, uncongenial, ill, unreconcilable, irreconcilable, head-on, antipathetic, more...

Opposite:
friendly, welcoming, amicable, cooperative, congenial

Types:
passive-aggressive, aggressive, aggressive-hostile, more...

Phrases:
hostile environment, hostile takeover, hostile takeovers, hostile act, hostile force, hostile intent, hostile witness, hostile fire, hostile witnesses, hostile bid, hostile invasion, hostile expedition, more...

Adjectives:
first, least, long, political, public, most, general, worst, whole, deadly, foreign

Colors:
    red,     black,     dark red,     blood red,     crimson, more...



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