Rancorous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rancorous \Ran"cor*ous\ (r[a^][ng]"k[~e]r*[u^]s), a. [OF.
     rancuros.]
     Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply
     malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely
     virulent.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire.
                                                    --Spenser.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rancorous
       adj : showing deep-seated resentment; "preserve...from rancourous
             envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "rancorous":
     acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous,
     acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, avenging,
     belligerent, bitter, burning, caustic, choleric, clashing,
     colliding, conflicting, despiteful, embittered, envenomed, evil,
     full of hate, grudgeful, hateful, hostile, implacable,
     irreconcilable, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, punitive,
     punitory, quarrelsome, rankled, repugnant, resentful, resenting,
     retaliatory, revanchist, revengeful, set against, sore, spiteful,
     splenetic, stewing, unappeasable, venenate, vengeful, venomous,
     vicious, vindicatory, vindictive, virulent, vitriolic, wicked