grudge

Meaning

Noun

Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.

Verb

1. To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something).
2. (obsolete) To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied.
3. (obsolete) To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously.

Synonyms

resentment

envy

malice

spite

enmity

hatred

rancour

grievance

rancor

stingy

begrudge

bitterness

animosity

hate

😡

resent

jealousy

stew

🍲

score

stint

malevolence

be unwilling to pay

grumble

grudge parting with

discontent

pique

feud

skimp

anger

💢

hold back

be stingy

ill will

revenge

unforgiveness

lie

deceive

heart-burning

feel grudgingly towards

amarulence

ranklement

resentiment

embitteredness

bear

🐻

blacklist

bugbear

complaint

covetousness

dislike

displeasure

dissatisfaction

down

enemy

evil

harm

heartache

hostility

ill-will

load

malignity

miserly

opposition

quarrel

regret

reproach

resentful

resentfulness

sadness

sorrow

spare

spleen

umbrage

wrath

bear a grudge

be jealous of

hard feelings

be weary of

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹʌd͡ʒ/

Etymology

A variant of grutch (mid 15th-century, younger than begrudge), from Middle English grucchen (“to murmur, complain, feel envy, begrudge”), from Old French grouchier, groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), of Germanic origin, probably ultimately imitative.
Akin to Middle High German grogezen (“to howl, wail”), German grocken (“to croak”). Compare also Old Norse krytja (“to murmur”), Old High German grunzen (“to grunt”).