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Definitions for Enemy

[1] a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.
[2] an armed foe; an opposing military force: The army attacked the enemy at dawn.
[3] a hostile nation or state.
[4] a citizen of such a state.
[5] enemies, persons, nations, etc., that are hostile to one another: Let's make up and stop being enemies.
[6] something harmful or prejudicial: His unbridled ambition is his worst enemy.
[7] the Enemy, the Devil; Satan.
[8] belonging to a hostile power or to any of its nationals: enemy property.
[9] Obsolete . inimical; ill-disposed.
[10] a person hostile or opposed to a policy, cause, person, or group, esp one who actively tries to do damage; opponent
[11] an armed adversary; opposing military force (as modifier ) enemy aircraft
[12] a hostile nation or people (as modifier ) an enemy alien
[13] something that harms or opposes; adversary courage is the enemy of failure

Words related to Enemy

murderer, spy, terrorist, competitor, rival, guerrilla, agent, detractor, bandit, foe, villain, traitor, rebel, opposition, invader, criminal, adversary, antagonist, opponent, prosecutor

Words nearby Enemy

endymion, endysis, ene, enea, enema, enemy, enemy alien, eneolithic, energetic, energetics, energid

Origin of Enemy

1250–1300; Middle English enemi < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin inimicus unfriendly, equivalent to in- in-3 + amicus friendly, friend; see amicable

Other words from Enemy

non·en·e·my , noun, plural non·en·e·mies.
Related adjective: inimical

Word origin for Enemy

C13: from Old French enemi, from Latin inimīcus hostile, from in- 1 + amīcus friend

Synonyms for Enemy

adversary, agent, antagonist, attacker, bandit, competitor, criminal, detractor, foe, guerrilla, invader, murderer, opponent, opposition, prosecutor, rebel, rival, spy, terrorist, traitor, villain, assailant, assassin, backbiter, betrayer, contender, defamer, defiler, disputant, emulator, falsifier, informer, inquisitor, revolutionary, saboteur, slanderer, traducer, vilifier, archenemy, asperser, bad person, calumniator, fifth column, other side, seditionist