inimical
adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.
unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical gaze.
Origin of inimical
1- Also in·im·i·ca·ble [ih-nim-i-kuh-buhl] /ɪˈnɪm ɪ kə bəl/ .
synonym study For inimical
Other words for inimical
Opposites for inimical
Other words from inimical
- in·im·i·cal·ly, adverb
- in·im·i·cal·ness, noun
- in·im·i·cal·i·ty [ih-nim-i-kal-i-tee] /ɪˌnɪm ɪˈkæl ɪ ti/ noun
- un·in·im·i·cal, adjective
- un·in·im·i·cal·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with inimical
- inimical , inimitable
Words Nearby inimical
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How to use inimical in a sentence
The education provided by the schools at issue here is inimical to a public education.
The Supreme Court Ruled Taxpayer Dollars Can Go Toward Religious Schools. LGBTQ Advocates Are Worried | Katie Reilly | June 21, 2022 | TImeLoujain al-Hathloul, the activist who fought for years to get women the right to drive — granted in 2019 — was sentenced to a five-year prison term in 2020, ostensibly for relations with foreign organizations inimical to Riyadh.
In societies where dominant cultural mores remain inimical to progressive ideals, advocates must seize upon the opportunity to make themselves understood and welcome in mainstream discourse.
What Trumpism is is a statist, authoritarian ideology that’s inimical to the American precepts of democracy.
Even in defeat, the embers of Trumpism still burn in the Republican Party | Robert Costa, Philip Rucker, Josh Dawsey | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostHe felt as though there were dark, sinister forces around him—forces which were inimical to what he conceived to be best in him.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph Hocking
The word inimical implies un-amicable, or unfriendly, whence Michael was seemingly the Friend of Man.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyThe sun should reach them only through the vapours of other life than theirs, inimical to them because of their selfishness.
There and Back | George MacDonaldLopez, seeing it in the same light, at last agreed that the story should be told in a manner not inimical to himself.
The Prime Minister | Anthony TrollopeThe residents here are Americans by connection and by interest, and are inimical to Great Britain.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson | Robert Southey
British Dictionary definitions for inimical
/ (ɪˈnɪmɪkəl) /
adverse or unfavourable
not friendly; hostile
Origin of inimical
1Derived forms of inimical
- inimically, adverb
- inimicalness or inimicality, noun
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