enmity

deep hostility

Roots

Other words with the amic root

  • amiable: friendly and pleasant
  • amicable: friendly or peaceable
  • amigo: friend; familiar Spanish borrowing in English
  • amity: friendship or peaceful relations
  • enemy: hostile opponent
  • inimical: hostile or harmful

Other words with the inim / enemy root

Enmity is enemy-feeling turned into a settled state.

Years of rivalry left enmity between the two families long after the original insult was forgotten.

Enmity is colder than one angry moment. It is hostility that has settled in and made itself at home.

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