An enemy is a hostile opponent, like your sworn Scrabble enemy who vows to get revenge on your last triple word score.
One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary;
Noun
any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy"
Noun
an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn"
Noun
an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies"
Noun
a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"
n.
One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or
attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of
or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.
a.
Hostile; inimical.
Enemy
To all good he enemy was still.
I say unto you, Love your enemies.
It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay.
Enemy
They . . . every day grow more enemy to God.
One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary;
Hostile; inimical.
Usage Examples
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid a coward knows when you are not.
All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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Other Usage ExamplesBetter is the enemy of good.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
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