 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
enemy
noun
1: an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn"
2: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing
military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his
enemies" [syn: {foe}, {foeman}, {opposition}]
3: any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real
enemy"
4: a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"
[syn: {foe}] [ant: {ally}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Enemy \En"e*my\, adjective
Hostile; inimical. [Obs.]
They . . . every day grow more enemy to God. --Jer.
Taylor.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Enemy \En"e*my\, noun; pl. {Enemies}. [OF. enemi, F. ennemi, from
L. inimicus; in- (negative) + amicus friend. See {Amicable}.]
One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or
attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an
enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.
To all good he enemy was still. --Spenser.
I say unto you, Love your enemies. --Matt. v. 44.
{The enemy} (Mil.), the hostile force. In this sense it is
construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular
or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we
have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours.
It was difficult in such a country to track the
enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay.
--Macaulay.
Syn: Foe; antagonist; opponent. See {Adversary}.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "enemy":
adversary, adversative, adverse, aggressive, alien, antagonist,
antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, archenemy, assailant,
attacker, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bitter enemy,
bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic,
clashing, combatant, combative, competitive, competitor, con,
conflicting, contender, contentious, contestant, contradictory,
contrary, counter, cross, devil, disaccordant, dissentient,
emulator, ferocious, fierce, fighting, foe, foeman, fractious,
full of fight, hawkish, hostile, inimical, invader, jingo,
jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic,
military, negative, noncooperative, obstinate, offensive,
open enemy, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposing party, opposite,
opposite camp, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, overthwart,
perverse, public enemy, pugnacious, quarrelsome, recalcitrant,
refractory, repugnant, rival, saber-rattling, sanguinary,
sanguineous, savage, scrappy, soldierlike, soldierly, sworn enemy,
the loyal opposition, the opposition, the other side,
trigger-happy, truculent, uncooperative, unfavorable, unfriendly,
unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpropitious, warlike,
warmongering, warring
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