rancorous
/ˈraŋk(ə)rəs
/adjective
Characterized by bitterness or resentment: sixteen miserable months of rancorous disputes a rancorous debate...
- It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous, troubled kid character.
- He would often describe his wartime experiences in caustic, funny terms that would turn bitter and rancorous.
- There were rancorous battles over pronunciation.
Synonyms
bitter, spiteful, hateful, resentful, acrimonious, malicious, malevolent, malign, malignant, hostile, antipathetic, venomous, poisonous, vindictive, evil-intentioned, ill-natured, baleful, vengeful, vitriolic, virulent, pernicious, mean, nasty
informal bitchy, catty
literary malefic, maleficent
Derivatives
rancorously
- In the 1970s, his parents moved from the country's eastern region to settle in Camden, then separated rancorously when he was six.
- Among those critics, none has been more rancorously unreflective the former Health Secretary.
- Viewers often end up thinking that there is no solution to the problem because the two sides are so rancorously polarised.
Rhymes
- shahid
- Shah, Karim Al-Hussain
- Shahn, Ben
- Shah, Reza
- shahtoosh
- shaikh
- Shaitan
- Shaka
- shakable
- shake
- shakeable
- shake a leg
- shake and bake
- shake-and-bake
- shake down
- shakedown
- shake hands (with someone) (or shake someone by the hand or shake someone's hand)
- shake hole
- shaken
- shaken baby syndrome
- Shake 'n Bake
- shake 'n' bake
- shake on
- shake one's booty
- shake one's fist