English-French translations for hostile

• hostile
  J'ai reçu un accueil très hostile. I received a very hostile reception.
  Israël estime qu'elles vivent dans une entité hostile. Israel takes the view that they live in a hostile entity.
  Dans cette dernière, la décision relative à une offre hostile est laissée aux actionnaires. It leaves the decision concerning a hostile bid to the shareholders.

Definition of hostile

• Not friendly, appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure
• Aggressive, antagonistic
• Of a hostile takeover
• An enemy

Examples

• a hostile force
• hostile intentions
• a hostile country
• hostile to a sudden change
• Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report.

Related words

• hostilely
• hostile takeover
• hostile witness
• hostile to foreigners
• hostile to life