Difference between Hostile and Truculent

HOSTILE vs TRUCULENT: NOUN

An antagonistic person or thing.
An enemy in warfare.
Troops belonging to the enemy's military forces
An enemy.
An enemy: specifically, in the United States, a hostile Indian; an Indian who is engaged in warfare against the whites.
An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.

Not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
Very unfriendly
Marked by features that oppose constructive treatment or development
Very unfavorable to life or growth
Of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy.
Feeling or showing enmity or ill will.
Being in opposition; opposed.
Unfavorable to health or well-being; inhospitable or adverse.
Used of attempts to buy or take control of a business
Impossible to bring into friendly accord
Characterized by enmity or ill will
Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly

Synonyms Averse, Adverse, Inimical, Hostile; unfriendly, warlike. Averse applies to feeling, adverse to action: as, I was very averse to his going; an adverse vote; adverse fortune. Inimical expresses both feeling and action, generally in private affairs. Hostile also expresses both feeling and action, but applies especially to public affairs; where it applies to private matters, it expresses either strong or conspicuous action or feeling, or both, or all.
Of inimical character or tendency; having or exhibiting enmity or antagonism; antagonistic: as, a hostile manifesto; hostile criticism.
Of or pertaining to an enemy: as, hostile ground.

Ill, Bitter, Irreconcilable, Opposing, Truculent, Unfavorable, Inimical, Antipathetic, Enemy, Aggressive, Uncongenial, Inhospitable, Belligerent, Antagonistic, Unfriendly

Ornery, Sullen, Confrontational, Boorish, Combative, Arrogant, Brusque, Obstreperous, Bellicose, Obstinate, Belligerent, Petulant, Pugnacious, Aggressive, Hostile

Ill, Bitter, Irreconcilable, Opposing, Truculent, Unfavorable, Inimical, Antipathetic, Enemy, Aggressive, Uncongenial, Inhospitable, Belligerent, Antagonistic, Unfriendly

Ornery, Sullen, Confrontational, Boorish, Combative, Arrogant, Brusque, Obstreperous, Bellicose, Obstinate, Belligerent, Petulant, Pugnacious, Aggressive, Hostile

And, if it is found that a hostile work environment exists, you must take appropriate action to ensure that the hostile work environment ceases.
Eritrea has become hostile in her foreign relations too, considering her neighbours to be hostile to struggle.
The Nether: This is a relatively hostile dimension in which Lava and both neutral and hostile Mobs are everywhere.
Hostile, impulsive children tend to be poor perspective takers and often interpret other children as having a hostile intent.
Hostile Environment sexual harassment in which such conduct creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment.
An attack to disable or destroy a hostile force is Immediate Pursuit of Hostile Foreign Forces.
Russian moves in sharing weapons and technologies with hostile or potentially hostile countries, like Iran.
Common definitions for Defense of Self or Others, Imminent Threat, Hostile Act, Hostile Intent.
Segregate hostile elements such as religious, political, or ethnic groups hostile to one another.
Once a force is declared hostile by appropriatact or demonstrated hostile intent before engaging the declared hostile force.

His thoughts, beliefs, and prejudices are rigid and inflexible, and he becomes truculent or combative when challenged.
These developments, along with a truculent Trump, are undermining relations between member states and the cohesion of the alliance.
It was a typical Trinli turnabout, always the truculent cannon, but pointing in whatever direction might make him look good.
The truculent guard in a pale gray uniform stepped out of the booth and eyeballed me.
Reached by phone, Brnovich sounded somewhat less truculent than in his press release.
Inhuman, brutal, cruel, unfeelmg, ruthless, truculent, ferocious, fierce, fell, bloody, brutish.
Last year it was a truculent Burmese Python in the Everglades.
This truculent is occasioned by potential errors and misunderstandings.
Khrushchev met his proposals with bombast and truculent indifference.
He was truculent and difficult to deal with.