Synonyms of the word

rancor

• n. The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred.

bitterness

• n. The quality of having a bitter taste.
• n. The quality of feeling bitter; acrimony, resentment.

enmity

• n. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition.
• n. A state or feeling of opposition, hostility, hatred or animosity.

gall

• n. (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting…
• n. (anatomy) The gall bladder.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
• n. (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
• n. (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
• n. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
• n. (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as…
• n. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
• n. (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the…
• v. (transitive) To trouble or bother.
• v. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
• v. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
• v. To exasperate.
• v. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond…
• v. To scoff; to jeer.
• n. (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing…
• v. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

hostility

• n. (uncountable) The state of being hostile.
• n. (countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.

rancour

• n. Britain and Canada spelling of rancor.

resentment

• n. A feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that one has been wronged by others or betrayed;…
• n. (obsolete) The state of holding something in the mind as a subject of contemplation, or of being inclined…
• n. (obsolete) satisfaction; gratitude.