war vs hostility
hostility vs warwar and hostility both are nouns.
war is a verb but hostility is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| war | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| hostility | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
hostility is a hypernym of
war; that is, hostility is a
word with a broader meaning than war:
- war: a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply
- hostility: a state of deep-seated ill-will
Other hypernyms of war include
antagonism, enmity.
| war (noun) | hostility (noun) |
|---|---|
| the waging of armed conflict against an enemy | violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked |
| a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious | a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition |
| an active struggle between competing entities | the feeling of a hostile person |
| a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply | a state of deep-seated ill-will |
| war (verb) | hostility (verb) |
|---|---|
| make or wage war |
Words related to "war"
- Arab-Israeli War
- BW
- Balkan Wars
- Boer War
- Chino-Japanese War
- Crimean War
- Franco-Prussian War
- French and Indian War
- Greek War of Independence
- Gulf War
- Hundred Years' War
- IW
- Iran-Iraq War
- Korean War
- Macedonian War
- Mexican War
- Mexican-American War
- Napoleonic Wars
- Nine Years' War
- Peloponnesian War
- Persian Gulf War
- Punic War
- Russo-Japanese War
- Second Sino-Japanese War
- Seven Years' War
- Sino-Japanese War
- Six Day War
- Six-Day War
- Spanish War
- Spanish-American War
- Thirty Years' War
- Trojan War
- Vietnam
- Vietnam War
- War of 1812
- War of Greek Independence
- War of the Austrian Succession
- War of the Grand Alliance
- War of the League of Augsburg
- War of the Roses
- War of the Spanish Succession
- Wars of the Roses
- Yom Kippur War
- action
- aggression
- antagonism
- armed combat
- armed forces
- armed services
- battle
- bioattack
- biologic attack
- biological attack
- biological warfare
- blitzkrieg
- campaign
- cause
- chemical operations
- chemical warfare
- civil war
- combat
- conflict
- contend
- crusade
- de-escalation
- despoiler
- drive
- drug war
- effort
- engagement
- enmity
- fight
- freebooter
- go to war
- hostility
- hot war
- information warfare
- limited war
- looter
- make peace
- military
- military action
- military machine
- movement
- peace
- pillager
- plunderer
- proxy war
- psychological warfare
- raider
- side
- spoiler
- state of war
- struggle
- take arms
- take the field
- take up arms
- trench warfare
- war
- war machine
- war of nerves
- warfare
- warrior
- world war
Words related to "hostility"
- Cold War
- action
- aggression
- aggressiveness
- animosity
- animus
- antagonism
- bad blood
- belligerence
- belligerency
- bitterness
- class feeling
- cold war
- enmity
- force
- gall
- hate
- hatred
- hostile
- ill will
- latent hostility
- meat grinder
- pillage
- pillaging
- plundering
- rancor
- rancour
- resentment
- state
- state of war
- suspicion
- tension
- unfriendliness
- violence
- virulence
- virulency
- war
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