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Hostile vs Witherward - What's the difference?

hostile | witherward |

As adjectives the difference between hostile and witherward

is that hostile is belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly while witherward is adverse, contrary.

As nouns the difference between hostile and witherward

is that hostile is an enemy while witherward is opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility.

As an adverb witherward is

contrary to, against.

hostile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly
    • a hostile force
    hostile intentions
    a hostile country
    hostile to a sudden change

    Related terms

    * hostility * See also

    Synonyms

    * antagonistic * hateful

    Antonyms

    * friendly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) An enemy.

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    witherward

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Adverse, contrary.
  • Opposite, opposing; hostile.
  • * 1852 , The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
    • [...] then appeared to me along the way by which I formerly came amid the darkness, as it were the brightness of a shining star, and the light was waxing more and more, and quickly hastening to me, and as soon as it came nigh me, then were scattered and away fled all the witherward ghosts, which formerly threatened me with their tongs, [...]
    at the witherward side of the year

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Contrary to, against.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • Opposite; adversity, opposition; hostility
  • * 1850 , Henry Mills Alden, Harper's new monthly magazine: Volume 1, Issues 1-6 :
    • Nor, although be sung the "mighty stream of tendency" of this wondrous age, did he ever launch his poetic craft upon it, nor seem to see the witherward of its swift and awful stress.
  • * 1912 , American Chemical Society, Journal of the American Chemical Society: Volume 34, Issues 1-6 :
    • Nevertheless, he cannot be seriously opposed to scientific research as distinguished from technical research for the next four chapters deal with such theoretical subjects as "the question of the atom," "the witherward of matter," "the chemical interpretation of life" and "the beginning of things."
  • * 1950 , Thomas Hardy, The mayor of Casterbridge :
    • They were those of the song he had sung when he arrived years before at the Three Mariners, a poor young man, adventuring for life and fortune, and scarcely knowing witherward : [...]
    English words prefixed with wither-