RANCOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rancour mean? 

• RANCOUR (noun)
  The noun RANCOUR has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

  Familiarity information: RANCOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RANCOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bitterness; gall; rancor; rancour; resentment

Hypernyms ("rancour" is a kind of...):

enmity; hostility; ill will (the feeling of a hostile person)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rancour"):

heartburning (intense resentment)

huffishness; sulkiness (a feeling of sulky resentment)

grievance; grudge; score (a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation)

enviousness; envy (a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another)

 Context examples 

"Please don't." Her voice was cold, but the rancour was gone from it. She looked at Gatsby. "There, Jay," she said—but her hand as she tried to light a cigarette was trembling. Suddenly she threw the cigarette and the burning match on the carpet.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)