Word Meanings - FEUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. 2. A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred;
Additional info about word: FEUD
1. A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race. 2. A contention or quarrel; especially, an inveterate strife between families, clans, or parties; deadly hatred; contention satisfied only by bloodshed. Mutual feuds and battles betwixt their several tribes and kindreds. Purchas. Syn. -- Affray; fray; broil; contest; dispute; strife.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FEUD)
- Animosity
- Hatred
- antipathy
- dissention
- aversion
- acrimony
- feud
- strife
- rancor
- antagonism
- bitterness
- acerbity
- hostility
- enmity
- malice
- anger
- malevolence
- ill-will
- malignity
- feeling against
- Quarrel
- Brawl
- altercation
- affray
- squabble
- tumult
- dispute
- wrangle
- variance
- disagreement
- misunderstanding
- quarreling
- embroilment
- bickering
- broil
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FEUD)
Related words: (words related to FEUD)
- MALIGNITY
1. The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. Hayward. 3. Extreme evilness of nature - RANCOR
The deepest malignity or spite; deep-seated enmity or malice; inveterate hatred. "To stint rancour and dissencioun." Chaucer. It would not be easy to conceive the passion, rancor, and malice of their tongues and hearts. Burke. Syn. -- - QUARRELING
Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - FEELINGLY
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically. - COMPOSE
To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all - RANCOROUS
Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser. - COMPOSER
1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and - FEELER
One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything, - DISPUTE
To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. (more info) from L. disputare, disputatum; dis- + putare to clean; hence, fig., - HATRED
Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy. - AVERSION
1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of - BRAWLING
1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp. - ENMITY
1. The quality of being an enemy; hostile or unfriendly disposition. No ground of enmity between us known. Milton. 2. A state of opposition; hostility. The friendship of the world is enmity with God. James iv. 4. Syn. -- Rancor; hostility; hatred; - EMBROILMENT
The act of embroiling, or the condition of being embroiled; entanglement in a broil. Bp. Burnet. - CONCILIATE
To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was - TUMULTER
A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton. - TUMULTUARILY
In a tumultuary manner. - FORBEARER
One who forbears. Tusser. - MISUNDERSTANDER
One who misunderstands. Sir T. More. - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - DERANGER
One who deranges. - DISEMBROIL
To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion. Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison. - WANGER
A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer. - DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. - DECOMPOSE
To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay. - GRANGER
1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange. - ESTRANGER
One who estranges. - TANGERINE
A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. - KSHATRIYA; KSHATRUYA
The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste. - BOULANGERITE
A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead. - MISFEELING
Insensate. Wyclif. - GANGER
One who oversees a gang of workmen. Mayhew.