- like an enemy; hostile; unfriendly
- in opposition; adverse; unfavorable: laws inimical to freedom
Origin of inimical
Late Latin inimicalis from Classical Latin inimicus, hostile, enemy
adjective
The definition of inimical is unfriendly or harmful.
An example of inimical is the nature of disease.
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adjective
- Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse: habits inimical to good health.
- Unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical voice.
Origin of inimical
Late Latin inimīcālis from Latin inimīcus enemy ; see enemy .Related Forms:
- in·im′i·cal·ly
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Adjective
(comparative more inimical, superlative most inimical)
- Harmful in effect.
- Suicide is inimical to the health of the participant.
- Unfriendly, hostile.
- Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
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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.
- The time had, indeed, not yet come to attempt any conspicuous breach with the constitutional principle; but the new ministry was such as the imperial sentiment would approve, inimical to the German ideals of Frankfort, devoted to the traditions of the Habsburg monarchy.
- Inimical to that of the fungi which are so common on this substratum.
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