Antonyms for good willgood will

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1. good will

   Friendship is a deep, quiet, enduring affection, founded upon mutual respect and esteem. Friendship is always mutual; there may be unreciprocated affection or attachment, unrequited love, or even unrecognized and unappreciated devotion, but never unreciprocated or unrequited friendship; one may have friendly feelings toward an enemy, but while there is hostility or coldness on one side there can not be friendship between the two. Friendliness is a quality of friendly feeling, without the deep and settled attachment implied in the state of friendship. Comity is mutual kindly courtesy, with care of each other's right, and amity a friendly feeling and relation, not necessarily implying special friendliness; as, the comity of nations, or amity between neighboring countries. Affection may be purely natural; friendship is a growth. Friendship is more intellectual and less emotional than love; it is easier to give reasons for friendship than for love; friendship is more calm and quiet, love more fervent; love often rises to intensest passion; we can not speak of the passion of friendship. Friendship implies some degree of equality, while love does not; we can speak of man's love toward God, not of his friendship for God. (There is more latitude in the use of the concrete noun friend; Abraham was called "the friend of God;" Christ was called "the friend of sinners.") Compare ACQUAINTANCE; LOVE.

   See synonyms for BATTLE; ENMITY; FEUD; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   affection, amity, attachment, comity, consideration, devotion, esteem, esteem, favor, friendliness, friendship, love, regard

   Preposition:
   The friendship of one person for or toward another, or the friendship between them.

Matched Categories

1. • Accounting
   • Friendliness
   • Good Nature
   • Intangible Asset

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grace, good will, goodwillnoun

   a disposition to kindness and compassion

   "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished"

   Synonyms:
   gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace, grace of God, goodwill, seemliness

2. good will, goodwillnoun

   (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)

   Synonyms:
   grace, goodwill

3. good will, goodwillnoun

   the friendly hope that something will succeed

   Synonyms:
   grace, goodwill

How to use good will in a sentence?

1. Randall Woodfin:

   I am dismayed because this controversy might have been avoided entirely, had it been handled differently. I am dismayed because, as has been the case throughout Birmingham's history, people of good will behaved reflexively, rather than engaging in meaningful discourse over their differences and seeking common ground, throughout my life, I have been a person who tries to see and understand all reasonable points of view on any given issue. As mayor, I believe that quality is an essential part of my job, a means of encouraging interchange and forging the consensus necessary to arrive at fair and workable solutions to any issue or opportunity that confronts us as a city.

2. Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaCohen Kook:

   The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

3. Glenn McConnell:

   I support Governor Haley's call to remove the Confederate soldier's flag from State House grounds as a visible statement of courtesy and good will to all those who may be offended by it.

4. Charles Krauthammer:

   This is a sham marriage and the reason is simple: good will on both sides, paul Ryan is a conservative; has been all his life, and is committed to certain conservative principles.

5. Buddha:

   However many holy words you read, however many you speak, and what good will they do you if you do not act upon them

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