- hard feelings
- RESENTMENT, animosity, ill feeling, ill will, bitterness, bad blood, resentfulness, rancour, malice, acrimony, antagonism, antipathy, animus, friction, anger, hostility, hate, hatred.→ hard
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hard feelings plural nounHostility, resentment• • •Main Entry: ↑hard* * *
[usu. with negative] feelings of resentmentthere are no hard feelings, and we wish him well
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hard feelings1◇ If you have hard feelings, you feel dislike or anger toward someone who you think has mistreated you.She felt/had no hard feelings towards him.
The court's decision has caused a lot of hard feelings.
2◇ The phrase no hard feelings is used in speech to say that you are not upset or to ask if someone else is upset.“I'm sorry I broke our date last night.” “That's OK; no hard feelings.”
“So, we're still friends, right? No hard feelings?”
• • •Main Entry: ↑hard
Useful english dictionary. 2012.