Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse: habits inimical to good health.
- adj. Unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical voice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; hostile: chiefly applied to private enmity.
- Adverse; hurtful; repugnant.
- Synonyms Averse, Adverse, etc. (see hostile), unfriendly, antagonistic, opposed, hurtful.
Wiktionary
- adj. Harmful in effect.
- adj. Unfriendly, hostile.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to
private , ashostile is topublic , enmity. - adj. Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not friendly
Etymologies
- From the Latin inimicus “enemy”; Latin in- not and amicus friendly. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin inimīcālis, from Latin inimīcus, enemy; see enemy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The two continued to look into each other's eyes, and something, it could hardly be called inimical, rather an aloofness from the tie of blood, was visible to each in the other's steadfast gaze.”
“His face showed the effect of a sleepless night, and wore an expression inimical to all mankind.”
“No, randomness is not "inimical" to free will; it is *different* from free will, to be sure, but there is nothing inconceivable or improbable about a universe in which both free will and randomness exist, are fundamental, and interact with each other in complex ways.”
Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“This, according to the outgoing DA leader, was "inimical" to the values of individual freedom and accountability.”
“From this time forward, Macknight became a marked man, "inimical" whether he wanted to be or not.”
“July 7th, 2010 NEW DELHI - The Congress Wednesday expressed concern over the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and said that "inimical" elements from across the border were trying to create tension and violence in the valley.”
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“At issue is a report in Ha'aretz stating that Rosenthal criticized Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to Washington, who had described the positions of J Street, a dovish pro-Israel group, as "inimical" to Israel's interests.”
“New Delhi: India today said it will take whatever steps are needed to prevent and defeat "inimical" elements against peace and normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir.”
“The argument offered in favor of the reduction was three-fold; viz., "very burthensom to the fair purchaser," inimical "to the settlement and improvement of the lands" in the colony, and a great hinderance to "the importation of slaves, and thereby lessens the fund arising upon the duties upon slaves." [”
“But it was also important that the big windows not lure birds to their deaths with inimical reflections.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inimical’.
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quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 566 more...
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droll, dyspeptic, ebullient, ardor, edify, efficacy, malinger, mannered, martinet, maudlin, mendacious, mendicant and 101 more...
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Words I want to add to my working vocabulary.
picayune, elision, intimated, modicum, non sequitur, insouciant, vituperate, asperity, perfidious, gainsay, fulmination, inimical and 11 more...
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sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 103 more...
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Harmful
quick, hurtful, ruinous, noxious, destructive, deadly, mischievous, deleterious, baneful, injurious, baleful, malicious and 24 more...
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insurmountable, ubiquitous, unequivocal, incumbent, asinine, amenable, sycophants, precarious, malevolent, gregarious, raison detra, nefarious and 200 more...
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quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 230 more...
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elicit, educe, refute, cogency, churlish, martinet, veritable, polyglot, dissemble, histrionics, prevarication, verbiage and 166 more...
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GRE Words
abjure, unswear, state, rescission, indemnification, ab, reny, abnegate, vitiated, vitiate, adumbrated, abash and 378 more...
Tweets
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kingparton The birds are as loquacious as women: the bees as inimical to silence as children.
Robert Lynd, "Silence" Jul 27, 2011
Casey "Roland had never in his life seen such animals or countryside, and it made his skin want to crawl right off his flesh. It was inimical, but that was not the problem. It was alien-- that was the problem. From The Wastelands by Stephen King. Jan 8, 2011
gman Might best be avoided. Nov 20, 2009
sera Note to self:
compare inimitable
inimitable- peerless. Antonym: common
inimical- hostile. Antonym: amicable Aug 16, 2007