The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPITE , but the solution may also be ENMITY which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Ill will crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SPITE | 36 % | 5 |
| RANCOR | 14 % | 6 |
| MALICE | 12 % | 6 |
| ANIMUS | 11 % | 6 |
| ENMITY | 10 % | 6 |
| ANIMOSITY | 4 % | 9 |
| IRE | 2 % | 3 |
| BILE | 2 % | 4 |
| SPLEEN | 2 % | 6 |
| HATRED | 1 % | 6 |
| HATE | 1 % | 4 |
| GRUDGE | 1 % | 6 |
| ODIUM | 1 % | 5 |
| VENOM | 1 % | 5 |
| ACRIMONY | 1 % | 8 |
| BADBLOOD | 1 % | 8 |
Why may ENMITY be the right solution?
"Enmity" is the right answer because it means a deep-seated, often mutual hatred or ill will between enemies. It fits the clue "ill will" perfectly.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Ill will
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- hostility
- enmity
- ill-will
- spite
- ill-willer
- maugre
- ill feeling
- grudge
- malevolence
- despite
- spitelessness
- malaise
Crossword Answer definitions
SPITE noun- Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice
- Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
- To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
- To be angry at; to hate.
- To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
- Notwithstanding; despite.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SPITE
- Malice
- Venom
- Malicious feeling
- Malevolence
- Meanness
- Malicious feelings
- Vengeful feeling
- Acrimony
- Rancor
- Ill will
More clues leading to the result RANCOR
- Bitter resentment
- Bad blood
- Resentment
- Ill will
- Enmity
- Bitter anger
- Bitterness
- Long-lasting resentment
- Acrimony
- Venom
More clues leading to the result MALICE
- "Absence of __" (1981 flick)
- Evil feeling
- 1993 thriller set in suburban Boston
- Ill will
- Spite
- Animosity
- Cussedness
- Evil intent
- Bad intentions
- Spitefulness
More clues leading to the result ANIMUS
- Attitude
- Hostile feeling
- Hostility
- Jungian part of some personalities
- Bad blood
- Hatred
- Hostile attitude
- Enmity
- Ill will
- Strong dislike
More clues leading to the result ENMITY
- Ill will
- Hatred
- Bad blood
- Mutual ill will
- Antagonism
- Feeling not uncommon among opera stars.
- Hostility.
- Antagonism.
- Animosity
- Rancor
More clues leading to the result ANIMOSITY
- Ill will
- Considerable friction
- Active belligerence.
- Malignity.
- Ill will.
- Opposite of [circled letters]
- Strong ill will
- Hostile feeling, or an antonym of the word formed by letters 1, 4, 7, 8 and 9
- Is no amity?
More clues leading to the result IRE
More clues leading to the result BILE
- Digestive juice
- Liver product
- Rotten temper
- Liver secretion
- Digestive fluid
- Ill will
- Pure spite
- Irascibility
- Peevishness
- Ill temper
More clues leading to the result SPLEEN
- Ill temper
- Vexation
- Anger
- Irascibility
- Bad temper
- Vent one's ___
- Iron-recycling organ
- Peevishness
- Ill humor
- Lymphocyte producer
More clues leading to the result HATRED
- Repugnance
- What Elphaba feels for Galinda, at the start of "Wicked"
- Extreme dislike
- Animosity
- "___ is blind, as well as love" (Oscar Wilde)
- Dislike covering left-winger (6)
- Loathing
- Bad blood
- Enmity
- Abhorrence
More clues leading to the result HATE
- Detest
- Dislike a lot
- Love-__ relationship
- Abhor
- Can't stand
- Despise
- More than dislike
- Loathe
- Object of detestation
- Regrettable, if not tragic, political motivation
More clues leading to the result GRUDGE
- It's unhealthy to hold one
- Sustained feeling of resentment
- One may be held and nursed
- Resentment over a prior wrong
- Feeling of resentment associated with the last words of the starred answers
- Unhealthy thing to hold
- Ill will.
- Bad thing to bear
- Soreness?
- It may be held and nursed
More clues leading to the result ODIUM
- Hatred
- Unfavorable renown
- Sheer loathing
- Detestation
- Dislike, plus
- Repugnance
- Hatred or disgrace
- State of hate
- Abhorrence
- Intense antipathy
More clues leading to the result VENOM
- Moccasin secretion
- Poison
- Beef
- Cobra's weapon
- Weapon for 1 Across
- Vitriol
- Fang delivery
- The bite stuff?
- Rancor
- Spitefulness
More clues leading to the result ACRIMONY
- Rancor
- Bitterness
- Ill will
- Teamwork obstacle
- Bitterness.
- Sharpness of temper.
- Harsh words.
- Sharpness of language.
- Bitterness of manner
- Unfriendliness