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RANCOROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rancorous mean?
• RANCOROUS (adjective)
The adjective RANCOROUS has 1 sense:
1. showing deep-seated resentment
Familiarity information: RANCOROUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing deep-seated resentment
Context example:
preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich
Similar:
resentful (full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will)
Derivation:
rancor (a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will)
Context examples
No wonder that a fear of the French power lay deeply in the hearts of the most gallant men, and that fear should, as it always does, beget a bitter and rancorous hatred.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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