rancor
Deep-seated ill will
Rancor is deep-seated, long-lasting bitterness or resentment.
Unlike quick-fading anger, rancor festers—it's the ill will that remains after a grudge has hardened: Years later, she still spoke of her ex-husband with rancor.
The adjective rancorous describes someone harboring such feelings or an atmosphere poisoned by them: a rancorous divorce, rancorous political debate.
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- grudgePersistent resentment toward someone
- animosityActive, bitter hostility
- ill-willHostile or unkind feeling
- spitePetty malicious intent
acrimony · hostility · enmity · malice · bad blood · antagonism · animus · disaffection
Intense, settled disgust
- detestationIntense, thorough hatred
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
- hatredIntense hostile aversion
- malevolenceActive ill will
contempt · disdain · aversion · revulsion · antipathy · odium · execration · scorn
Sharp and biting
- causticChemically burning; bitterly mocking
- bitterSharp, unpleasant taste
- sardonicGrimly mocking
- mordantCuttingly critical in expression
vitriolic · acrimonious · harsh · sharp · cutting · venomous · spiteful · scathing
Hostile or attacking behavior
- conflictOpposition between parties
- strifeAngry, prolonged conflict
- discordLack of agreement
- frictionResistance between touching surfaces
tension · opposition · clash · warfare · contention · belligerence · combativeness · pugnacity
bitterness
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- grudgePersistent resentment toward someone
- animosityActive, bitter hostility
- ill-willHostile or unkind feeling
spite · acrimony · hostility · enmity · malice · bad blood · antagonism · animus · disaffection · umbrage
loathing
Intense, settled disgust
- detestationIntense, thorough hatred
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
- hatredIntense hostile aversion
malevolence · contempt · disdain · aversion · revulsion · antipathy · odium · execration · scorn · repugnance
acerbic
Sharp and biting
mordant · vitriolic · acrimonious · harsh · sharp · cutting · venomous · spiteful · scathing · jaundiced
aggression
Hostile or attacking behavior
friction · tension · opposition · clash · warfare · contention · belligerence · combativeness · pugnacity · warring
- aversionaversion, disgust, hatred, repulsion, loathing
- bad bloodanimosity, hostility, enmity, resentment, grudge
- hatredhate, hateful, abhor, abhorrence, detest
- hostilityanimosity, hostility, antagonism, belligerence, malice
- resentmentresentful, grudge, bitterness, spite, ill will
- bitternessbitterness, resentment, acrimony, grudge, spite
rancorgoodwill
Kindly, generous spirit
benevolence · love · amity · affection · kindness
rancorforgiveness
Releasing resentment toward offenders
reconciliation · absolution · letting go · peace · equanimity
- rancid oilOxidized, foul-smelling lipid
- rancid butterSpoiled dairy fat
rancid, rancorous, rancidity, rancors, rancour, rancorousness