how to pronounce hostile

/ˈhɒs.taɪl/

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hostile is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of hostile in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… general population are not hostile as …”

meaning of hostile

Hostile means unfriendly, unfeeling, or antagonistic.

hostile frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word hostile occurs in english on average 16.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hostile can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hostile can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;