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RANCOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rancor mean? 

RANCOR (noun)
  The noun RANCOR has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-willplay

  Familiarity information: RANCOR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RANCOR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment

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)


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