Definitions for enemy

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enemy en·e·my

Spelling: [en-uh-mee]

IPA: /ˈɛn ə mi/

Enemy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in enemy (eemny).

Definitions for enemy

noun

1. a person who feels hatred for, fosters harmful designs against, or engages in antagonistic activities against another; an adversary or opponent.
2. an armed foe; an opposing military force:
3. a hostile nation or state.
4. a citizen of such a state.
5. enemies, persons, nations, etc., that are hostile to one another:
6. something harmful or prejudicial:
7. the Enemy, the Devil; Satan.

adjective

1. belonging to a hostile power or to any of its nationals:
2. Obsolete. inimical; ill-disposed.

Origin of enemy

1250-1300; Middle English enemi Anglo-French, Old French Latin inimicus unfriendly, equivalent to in- in-³ + amicus friendly, friend; see Examples for enemy

But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.

“Do not use complaints, courts and lawyers to beat and to silence the enemy,” the NOA activists wrote.

Having a partiality for Robert, this was not likely to recommend his enemy in her eyes.

They were built upon high cliffs and rumor had it that no enemy could take them.

In the event, the enemy did plenty—far more than SHAEF, or for that matter the German high command, imagined possible.

How little has been the effect of this example on the conduct of the enemy!

From one enemy of Robert the transition is brief and natural to another.

It was followed by several told-you-so articles with titles like “Have No Illusion: Islam Is the enemy.”

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.

In “Steal This Episode,” the filmmaker denounces Homer Simpson as an “enemy of art.”