rancors

Meaning of rancors

plural noun
  1. bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long standing.
    he spoke without rancour

Middle English: via Old French from late Latin rancor ‘rankness’ (in the Vulgate ‘bitter grudge’), related to Latin rancidus ‘stinking’.

Information about rancors

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of rancors is: rancor.
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Hyphenation of rancors

ran-cors

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • rancors is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

rancors synonyms

Meaning sharpness of taste; lack of sweetness:

bitterness

Meaning a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone:

spite

Meaning intense dislike:

hate

Meaning intense dislike; hate:

hatred

Meaning bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly:

resentment

Meaning the desire to harm someone; ill will:

malice

Meaning the state or condition of being malevolent; hostility:

malevolence

Meaning the state or presence of a malignant tumour; cancer:

malignancy

Meaning strong hostility:

animosity

Meaning a deep-seated feeling of aversion:

antipathy

Meaning a state or feeling of active opposition or hostility:

enmity

Meaning hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition:

hostility

Meaning bitterness or ill feeling:

acrimony

Meaning extreme malice and bitterness shown in someone's attitudes, speech, or actions:

venom

Meaning something that has a destructive or corrupting influence:

poison

Meaning bitter criticism or malice:

vitriol

Meaning the severity or harmfulness of a disease or poison:

virulence

Meaning lack of generosity; miserliness:

meanness

Meaning the state or quality of being nasty:

nastiness

Anagrams of rancors

Scarron

Words that rhyme with rancors

cors, Mevacors, succors, wardcors, decors, jeistiecors, Zocors, mucors, Vycors

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