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RANCOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
Synonyms:
bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("rancor" is a kind of...):
enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rancor"):
heartburning (intense resentment)
huffishness; sulkiness (a feeling of sulky resentment)
grievance; grudge; score (a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation)
enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)
Derivation:
rancorous (showing deep-seated resentment)
