Modifies a noun

• force: The protagonist goes on to battle and conquer the villain or inimical forces.

Modifying Another Word

• so: We invent scuba gear and submarines and we explore the deep ocean so inimical to our terrene mammal bodies.

• not: A broader agenda is not inimical to the US; on the contrary.

• deeply: Summary Taken together, these four elements of managerialism are deeply inimical to the role of the professional.

• totally: On the contrary, they promote an atmosphere which is totally inimical to the existence of bias.

• therefore: Politics is the sphere of utility, and therefore inimical to conservative values.

• often: Home Office policies are often inimical to keeping asylum seekers within the system.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Curiously, both streams, in the Neoplatonic and the Epicurean schools, became inimical to science and western understandings of religion.

• see: In fact, the girlfriends were usually seen as inimical to the Teddy Boy life.