| animosity | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. animosity, animus, bad blood | a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility. |
| ~ ill will, enmity, hostility | the feeling of a hostile person.; "he could no longer contain his hostility" |
| bitterness | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour, resentment | a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. |
| ~ ill will, enmity, hostility | the feeling of a hostile person.; "he could no longer contain his hostility" |
| ~ heartburning | intense resentment.; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals" |
| ~ huffishness, sulkiness | a feeling of sulky resentment. |
| ~ grievance, grudge, score | a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation.; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" |
| ~ enviousness, envy | a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness | a rough and bitter manner. |
| ~ disagreeableness | an ill-tempered and offensive disposition. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. bitter, bitterness | the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth. |
| ~ gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus.; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" |
| n. (attribute) | 4. bitter, bitterness | the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste. |
| ~ taste property | a property appreciated via the sense of taste. |
| ~ acerbity | a sharp bitterness. |
| ~ acridness, acridity | extreme bitterness.; "the acridity of alkali" |
| rancor | | |
| spite | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom | feeling a need to see others suffer. |
| ~ malevolence, malignity | wishing evil to others. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty. |
| ~ malevolency, malevolence, malice | the quality of threatening evil. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. bruise, hurt, injure, offend, spite, wound | hurt the feelings of.; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" |
| ~ affront, diss, insult | treat, mention, or speak to rudely.; "He insulted her with his rude remarks"; "the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone" |
| ~ arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle, fire, raise | call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses).; "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy" |
| ~ lacerate | deeply hurt the feelings of; distress.; "his lacerating remarks" |
| ~ sting | cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging.; "His remark stung her" |
| ~ abase, chagrin, humiliate, humble, mortify | cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" |
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