rancour (redirected from rancours)

ran·cour  (rngkr)

n. Chiefly British

Variant of rancor.

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rancour US, rancor [ˈræŋkə]

n

malicious resentfulness or hostility; spite

[from Old French, from Late Latin rancor rankness]

rancorous  adj

rancorously  adv

rancorousness  n

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

rancour - a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will bitterness, rancor, resentment, gall ill will, enmity, hostility - the feeling of a hostile person; "he could no longer contain his hostility" heartburning - intense resentment; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals" huffishness, sulkiness - a feeling of sulky resentment grievance, grudge, score - a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" enviousness, envy - a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another

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rancour

noun hatred, hate, spite, hostility, resentment, bitterness, grudge, malice, animosity, venom, antipathy, spleen, enmity, ill feeling, bad blood, ill will, animus, malevolence, malignity, chip on your shoulder (informal), resentfulness 'That's too bad,' he said without rancour.

Translations

rancour rancor (US) [ˈræŋkəʳ] N → rencor m

rancour [ˈræŋkə^r] (British) rancor (US) n → rancune f, rancœur f

rancour, (US) rancor

n (of tone) → Bitterkeit f, → Verbitterung f; (of attack) → Boshaftigkeit f

rancour rancor (Am) [ˈræŋkəʳ] n (frm) → rancore m