Usually means: Unfriendly and aggressive in nature.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word hostile:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hostile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hostile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hostile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hostile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hostile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hostile, hostile: Wordnik
  7. hostile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hostile: Wiktionary
  9. hostile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hostile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hostile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hostile: Dictionary.com
  13. hostile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hostile (disambiguation), Hostile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hostile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hostile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hostile: Rhymezone
  18. hostile, hostile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hostile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hostile: Free Dictionary
  21. hostile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hostile: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  3. hostile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hostile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. hostile: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hostile: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hostile: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See hostilely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
adjective:  Aggressive; antagonistic.
adjective:  Unwilling.
adjective:  (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) An enemy.

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