Hostile and Negative

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Hostile adjective - Marked by opposition or ill will.

Usage example: our landlord has a hostile attitude toward foreigners and refuses to rent to them

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Negative and hostile are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Negative" instead an adjective "Hostile".

Nearby Word: hostility

Negative adjective - Marked by opposition or ill will.

Usage example: classes that hopefully will change the negative attitude that some students have toward the recent immigrants

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Hostile and negative are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hostile" instead an adjective "Negative".

Hostile Weather: The storms that plague Wars rile up all the negative magic in the ley lines, leading to "hiccups", or sudden surges of energy that can transform you into a monster.

Source: Literature / The Girl From The Miracles District
Those negative attitudes motivate a full gamut of hostile actions, from ridicule and shunning, to bullying, vandalism, assault, corrective rape and murder.

Source: Useful Notes / Homophobia
Any hostile action at all directed at it will cause it to grow stronger, as it feeds off of negative feeling.

Source: Feed It with Fire

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