bad blood

1. 1.

   a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

   Synonymsanimosityanimus

   Broaderhostility

Questions about bad blood

What does bad blood mean?

bad blood means "a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility".

What is another word for bad blood?

Close synonyms include animosity, animus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bad blood a common word?

bad blood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.