ARCHENEMY Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

archenemy

noun

as in enemy

the person or entity toward whom you feel the most hatred or hostility The two politicians were archenemies. The country went to war with its archenemy.

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Recent Examples of archenemy The goal is to find and bring down archenemy Muzan. —

Randy Myers, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025 Scholars have written that early leaders came from the Muslim Brotherhood, archenemy of Egypt’s current military leadership, but that ties ended around 1990 under government pressure. —

Hannah Allam, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025 Dennis Quaid stars as a human pilot who’s stranded on a planet with a reptilian archenemy from a hostile planet played by Lou Gossett Jr. —

Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025 Andy Samberg is claiming he was not involved in the recent death of his longtime archenemy, Frisbee. —

Emlyn Travis Updated, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for archenemy

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enemy

Noun

With a range of around 250 miles, the AWACS can identify and track enemy aircraft and ships and monitor detailed battlefield information of US forces.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
It is governed by a brutal regime that oppresses its people and is an enemy to the United States.

— Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 28 Feb. 2026