Inimical meaning

ĭ-nĭm'ĭ-kəl
Like an enemy; hostile; unfriendly.
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The definition of inimical is unfriendly or harmful.

An example of inimical is the nature of disease.

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Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse.

Habits inimical to good health.

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Unfriendly; hostile.

A cold, inimical voice.

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In opposition; adverse; unfavorable.

Laws inimical to freedom.

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Suicide is inimical to the health of the participant.

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Her inimical attitude precludes romance.

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Origin of inimical

  • Late Latin inimīcālis from Latin inimīcus enemy enemy
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin inimicus (“enemy”), from in- (“not”) + amicus (“friend”).
    From Wiktionary

Inimical Sentence Examples

  • Thenceforward France treated the papacy as an inimical power.

  • the trade-gilds or secret societies, which were then, as now, often inimical to the government.

  • Stagnation of water is inimical to the action of the roots, and does away with the advantageous processes of flowing and percolating currents.

  • inimical to that of the fungi which are so common on this substratum.

  • In the middle of one of the longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something.

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