rancorous

The word “rancorous” has 3 syllables: ran-co-rous

It's pronounced as /ˈræŋkərəs/


What is synonym and antonym for rancorous?

In the thesaurus, “rancorous” has 43 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rancorous along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for rancorous

  • acid
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • angry
  • begrudging
  • bitter
  • caustic
  • contemptuous
  • cruel
  • cutting
  • cynical
  • disaffected
  • discontented
  • disdainful
  • disgruntled
  • embittered
  • frowning
  • grudging
  • hard
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • insulted
  • irritated
  • knock-down-and-drag-out
  • mad
  • malcontent
  • malicious
  • misanthropic
  • mordant
  • nasty
  • offended
  • resentful
  • rough
  • sarcastic
  • savage
  • scornful
  • sore
  • spiteful
  • trenchant
  • vehement
  • vicious
  • virulent
  • vitriolic

Antonyms for rancorous

Meanings of rancorous

  • adjective
    1. Full of rancor; bitter; unforgiving.

Example Sentences

  • Despite their attempts to reconcile, their relationship remained rancorous with bitterness and resentment.
  • The rancorous debate in the council chamber escalated into personal attacks and heated arguments.
  • Years of rancorous disagreements between the two families finally came to an end with a formal apology.
  • The atmosphere in the courtroom was tense and rancorous as the opposing lawyers clashed over legal interpretations.
  • The political climate became increasingly rancorous as rival factions traded accusations and insults.

On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rancorous, such as: acid, acrid, acrimonious, angry, begrudging, bitter, caring.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

take-no-prisoners

  • abusive
  • acrimonious
  • affectless
  • austere
  • barbarous
  • bestial
  • boorish
  • brutal
  • brutish
  • callous
  • case-hardened
  • cold
  • cold-blooded
  • compassionless
  • cruel
  • desensitized
  • disagreeable
  • evil-minded
  • frosty
  • grim
  • hard
  • hard-bitten
  • hard-boiled
  • hard-hearted
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • heartless
  • heavy-handed
  • heedless
  • ill-natured
  • ill-tempered
  • inconsiderate
  • indurate
  • inhuman
  • inhumane
  • insensate
  • insensitive
  • ironfisted
  • ironhanded
  • ironhearted
  • jackbooted
  • knock-down-and-drag-out
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • mean
  • merciless
  • obdurate
  • oppressive
  • pachydermatous
  • pitiless
  • rancorous
  • remorseless
  • rough
  • rough-and-tumble
  • ruthless
  • savage
  • severe
  • slash-and-burn
  • sledgehammer
  • soulless
  • spiteful
  • stern
  • stoney
  • stony
  • stonyhearted
  • surly
  • thick-skinned
  • thoughtless
  • tough
  • uncaring
  • uncharitable
  • unfeeling
  • unfriendly
  • ungentle
  • unloving
  • unmerciful
  • unsparing
  • unsympathetic
  • unthinking
  • vicious
  • virulent

malignantly

venomously

  • acrimoniously
  • angrily
  • antagonistically
  • awfully
  • balefully
  • bitchily
  • bitterly
  • boldly
  • brutally
  • caddishly
  • callously
  • cattily
  • caustically
  • contemptuously
  • cruelly
  • deprecatingly
  • despitefully
  • diabolically
  • disagreeably
  • disdainfully
  • enviously
  • envyingly
  • evil-mindedly
  • felly
  • ferociously
  • fiendishly
  • forcefully
  • forcibly
  • frantically
  • frenziedly
  • frighteningly
  • furiously
  • hard
  • hard-heartedly
  • hatefully
  • heartlessly
  • horribly
  • hostilely
  • ill
  • ill-naturedly
  • impetuously
  • in a frenzy
  • inconsiderately
  • inhumanely
  • insensitively
  • invidiously
  • irresistibly
  • jealously
  • kindlessly
  • like cats and dogs
  • madly
  • maleficiently
  • malevolently
  • maliciously
  • malignantly
  • malignly
  • meanly
  • mercilessly
  • mightily
  • misanthropically
  • monstrous
  • nastily
  • no holds barred
  • obnoxiously
  • passionately
  • pitilessly
  • rancorously
  • resentfully
  • riotously
  • roughly
  • ruthlessly
  • savagely
  • scornfully
  • severely
  • soullessly
  • spitefully
  • stormily
  • tempestuously
  • terribly
  • thoughtlessly
  • threateningly
  • tigerishly
  • tooth and nail
  • turbulently
  • uncontrollably
  • unfeelingly
  • ungraciously
  • unkindly
  • vehemently
  • vengefully
  • viciously
  • villainously
  • vindictively
  • virulently
  • vituperatively
  • wickedly
  • wildly
  • with bared teeth

nasty

  • X-rated
  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • abstract
  • abstruse
  • abusive
  • aching
  • achy
  • acrid
  • acrimonious
  • afflictive
  • aggravating
  • agonizing
  • alarming
  • annoying
  • appalling
  • atrocious
  • awful
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • barbarous
  • barnyard
  • base
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedraggled
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • below the belt
  • bemired
  • besmirched
  • bilious
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • black
  • blackened
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • bleeding
  • blowy
  • blue
  • blustering
  • blustery
  • brackish
  • breezy
  • broad
  • burdensome
  • burning
  • catchy
  • catty
  • caustic
  • censurable
  • chafing
  • chaotic
  • cheap
  • chilling
  • cloudy
  • cluttered
  • coarse
  • coarse-grained
  • collied
  • complex
  • complicated
  • condemnable
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • corrupt
  • cowardly
  • cramping
  • crappy
  • craven
  • critical
  • crocked
  • cruddy
  • crude
  • cruel
  • crumby
  • crummy
  • currish
  • damaging
  • dastardly
  • daunting
  • debased
  • debasing
  • debauched
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • deleterious
  • delicate
  • demanding
  • demoralizing
  • deplorable
  • depraved
  • deprecating
  • derogatory
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • devious
  • difficult
  • dingy
  • dire
  • direful
  • dirty
  • disagreeable
  • disarranged
  • disarrayed
  • discomfiting
  • discomforting
  • discommoding
  • discomposing
  • disconcerting
  • discouraging
  • discreditable
  • disdainful
  • disgraceful
  • disgusting
  • disheartening
  • disheveled
  • dishevelled
  • dishonorable
  • dislikable
  • dislikeable
  • dismaying
  • disordered
  • disparaging
  • dispiriting
  • displeasing
  • disquieting
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dodgy
  • down and dirty
  • draggled
  • dread
  • dreadful
  • dusty
  • earthy
  • enflamed
  • envious
  • evil
  • exacting
  • exceptionable
  • excruciating
  • execrable
  • exhausting
  • fearful
  • fearsome
  • festering
  • fierce
  • filthy
  • foggy
  • forbidding
  • formidable
  • foul
  • frightening
  • frightful
  • fuliginous
  • fulsome
  • galling
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • germy
  • ghastly
  • gnarly
  • god-awful
  • greasy
  • grewsome
  • grievous
  • grim
  • grimy
  • grisly
  • gross
  • grotty
  • grubby
  • gruesome
  • grungy
  • gunky
  • gusty
  • gutter
  • hair-raising
  • hairy
  • harassing
  • hard
  • hard-core
  • harmful
  • harsh
  • hateful
  • hazy
  • heinous
  • hellish
  • hideous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrific
  • horrifying
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • icky
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • illegal
  • immodest
  • immoral
  • importunate
  • improper
  • impure
  • inclement
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • indelicate
  • infamous
  • inflamed
  • inimical
  • iniquitous
  • injurious
  • insanitary
  • intimidating
  • intricate
  • invidious
  • involved
  • irritating
  • itching
  • jaundiced
  • jealous
  • jumbled
  • kinky
  • knotty
  • lame
  • lascivious
  • lewd
  • licentious
  • littered
  • loathsome
  • locker-room
  • louche
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • lurid
  • macabre
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • malodorous
  • mean
  • mean-spirited
  • mephitic
  • messed
  • messy
  • miscreant
  • miserable
  • misty
  • monstrous
  • mucky
  • muddled
  • muddy
  • murderous
  • murky
  • mussed
  • mussy
  • nagging
  • naughty
  • nauseating
  • nauseous
  • nightmarish
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • obscene
  • odious
  • off
  • off-color
  • off-colored
  • off-putting
  • offensive
  • onerous
  • oppressive
  • opprobrious
  • ornery
  • outrageous
  • overcast
  • painful
  • paltry
  • pernicious
  • persecutive
  • persecutory
  • perturbing
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • pinching
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poison
  • poisonous
  • polluted
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • pricking
  • prickling
  • prickly
  • problem
  • problematic
  • problematical
  • profane
  • racy
  • rainy
  • rancid
  • rancorous
  • ratty
  • raunchy
  • raw
  • recondite
  • repellant
  • repellent
  • reprehensible
  • reproachable
  • reptilian
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • revolting
  • revulsive
  • ribald
  • rotten
  • rough
  • rumpled
  • ruthless
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scabby
  • scabrous
  • scandalous
  • scary
  • scathing
  • scatological
  • scornful
  • scoundrelly
  • scruffy
  • scummy
  • scurrilous
  • scurvy
  • scuzzy
  • seamy
  • sensitive
  • serious
  • severe
  • shabby
  • shameful
  • shocking
  • sick
  • sickening
  • sickish
  • sickly
  • skanky
  • sleazy
  • sloppy
  • slovenly
  • smarting
  • smudged
  • smutty
  • snakelike
  • sneaking
  • snide
  • snotty
  • snowy
  • soft
  • soft-core
  • soiled
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sore
  • sorry
  • soupy
  • sour
  • spiny
  • spiteful
  • squalid
  • squally
  • stag
  • stained
  • sticky
  • stinging
  • stinking
  • stormy
  • stressful
  • stubborn
  • sucky
  • suggestive
  • sullied
  • sunless
  • swollen
  • tainted
  • tempestuous
  • tender
  • terrible
  • terrifying
  • thorny
  • threatening
  • ticklish
  • torturous
  • touchy
  • tough
  • trashy
  • tricksy
  • tricky
  • troublesome
  • troubling
  • troublous
  • turbulent
  • ugly
  • unacceptable
  • unappetizing
  • unbecoming
  • unchivalrous
  • unchristian
  • uncivilized
  • unclean
  • uncleaned
  • uncleanly
  • uncongenial
  • undesirable
  • unethical
  • unfair
  • ungentlemanly
  • ungodly
  • unhealthy
  • unholy
  • unjust
  • unkempt
  • unkind
  • unkindly
  • unlovely
  • unloving
  • unpalatable
  • unpleasant
  • unpleasing
  • unprincipled
  • unprintable
  • unrighteous
  • unsanitary
  • unsavory
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • unsportsmanlike
  • unsterile
  • unsterilized
  • untidy
  • unwanted
  • unwashed
  • unwelcome
  • unwholesome
  • unworthy
  • upsetting
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vexing
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vindictive
  • virulent
  • vitriolic
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • wicked
  • windblown
  • windswept
  • worrisome
  • wounding
  • wretched
  • wrong
  • yucky
  • yukky

uncool

  • a bit much
  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • accursed
  • annoying
  • arduous
  • artless
  • awful
  • babe in woods
  • bad news
  • bad scene
  • bad-natured
  • baleful
  • beastly
  • below par
  • bitchy
  • bitter
  • blasted
  • boresome
  • boring
  • burdensome
  • butterfingers
  • catty
  • childlike
  • clean
  • confounded
  • corn-fed
  • country
  • credulous
  • creepy
  • cursed
  • cussed
  • damnable
  • damned
  • debilitated
  • decrepit
  • deleterious
  • demanding
  • deplorable
  • despicable
  • despiteful
  • detestable
  • detrimental
  • difficult
  • disagreeable
  • discordant
  • disgusting
  • displeasing
  • disqualified
  • distasteful
  • dowdy
  • down
  • drag
  • dragging
  • drudging
  • dull
  • enervative
  • envious
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • exacting
  • execrable
  • exhausting
  • fatiguing
  • feeble
  • fierce
  • flat
  • flimsy
  • folksy
  • forbidding
  • foul
  • frank
  • fresh
  • geeky
  • green
  • green-eyed
  • grody
  • gross
  • guileless
  • gullible
  • hard
  • hard-time
  • heavy
  • hefty
  • heinous
  • hideous
  • ho-hum
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • humdrum
  • hurtless
  • icky
  • idealistic
  • ignorant
  • ill-adapted
  • ill-disposed
  • ill-equipped
  • ill-suited
  • impotent
  • improper
  • inadequate
  • inapplicable
  • inappropriate
  • incompatible
  • incompetent
  • incongruous
  • incorrect
  • ineffective
  • ineligible
  • inept
  • inexpedient
  • inexperienced
  • inexpert
  • infamous
  • infelicitous
  • ingenuous
  • inharmonious
  • injurious
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • innoxious
  • inobnoxious
  • inoffensive
  • inproficient
  • insufficient
  • invidious
  • irksome
  • jading
  • jealous
  • laborious
  • laid low
  • loathsome
  • losing
  • lousy
  • low
  • malevolent
  • malign
  • malignant
  • mean
  • mischievous
  • mistaken
  • monotonous
  • naive
  • nasty
  • natural
  • nauseating
  • nerdish
  • nerdy
  • not equal to
  • not fit
  • not up to
  • nowhere
  • noxious
  • objectionable
  • obnoxious
  • odious
  • offenseless
  • offensive
  • onerous
  • open
  • oppressive
  • ornery
  • out
  • out of element
  • out of place
  • out of shape
  • pernicious
  • pesky
  • pestiferous
  • petty
  • poisonous
  • poor
  • poorly
  • powerless
  • rancorous
  • raw
  • repellent
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • resentful
  • revolting
  • rocky
  • rotten
  • safe
  • shuddersome
  • simple
  • sleazy
  • slimy
  • soft
  • sour
  • spiteful
  • square
  • strenuous
  • styleless
  • tedious
  • tired
  • tiring
  • too much
  • tough
  • troublesome
  • trusting
  • trying
  • unable
  • unacceptable
  • unacquainted
  • unaffected
  • unartificial
  • unattractive
  • unbecoming
  • uncongenial
  • undesirable
  • unequipped
  • unfamiliar
  • unfashionable
  • unfit
  • unhappy
  • unhealthy
  • unhip
  • unhurtful
  • uninjurious
  • uninteresting
  • unlikable
  • unlikely
  • unlovely
  • unmalicious
  • unmeet
  • unobjectionable
  • unoffensive
  • unpalatable
  • unpromising
  • unqualified
  • unrelieved
  • unschooled
  • unskilled
  • unskillful
  • unsophisticated
  • unstudied
  • unstylish
  • unsuitable
  • unsuited
  • unsuspicious
  • untrendy
  • unworldly
  • useless
  • valueless
  • vengeful
  • venomous
  • vexatious
  • vicious
  • vile
  • virulent
  • weak
  • wearing
  • wearisome
  • wearying
  • well-intentioned
  • wellmeant
  • wicked
  • wide-eyed
  • yawn
  • youthful
  • yucky

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