Inimical
[ɪ'nɪmɪk(ə)l] or [ɪ'nɪmɪkl]
Definition
(a.) Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.
(a.) Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
Editor: Lyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Hostile, unfriendly, unkind, malevolent, antagonistic.[2]. Adverse, unfavorable, opposed, contrary, repugnant, hurtful, pernicious.
Edited by Lelia
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See false_and_GROUNDLESS]
Inputed by Dan
Definition
adj. like an enemy not friendly: contrary: repugnant.—adv. Inim′ically.
Checker: Rhonda
Examples
- He was the enemy, fine as a diamond, and as hard and jewel-like, the quintessence of all that was inimical. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald and Hermione were always strangely but politely and evenly inimical. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When a wife's relations interpose against a husband who is a gentleman, who is proud, and who must govern, the consequences are inimical to peace. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The man glanced up at him, half inimical, half recognising. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue inimical proceedings. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This static, cold-storage ideal of knowledge is inimical to educative development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Nor was Miss Briggs, although forced to adopt a hostile attitude, secretly inimical to Rawdon and his wife. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- None, except St. Pierre, was inimical to me; but which of them had the art, the thought, the habit, of benefiting thus tenderly? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Checker: Rhonda