rancour

Other forms: rancours

Definitions of rancour
  1. noun
    a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
    synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, resentment
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    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
    covetousness
    an envious eagerness to possess something
    green-eyed monster, jealousy
    a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
    penis envy
    (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity
    type of:
    enmity, hostility, ill will
    the feeling of a hostile person
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