16 December 2017
inimical or inimicable
[ih-nim-i-kuh l or ih-nim-i-kuh-buh l]
adjective
1. adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful:
a climate inimical to health.
2. unfriendly; hostile:
a cold, inimical gaze.
Origin of inimical
Latin
1635-1645; < Latin inimīc(us) unfriendly, hostile (see enemy ) + -al1
Related forms
inimically, adverb
inimicalness, inimicality, noun
uninimical, adjective
uninimically, adverb
Can be confused
inimical, inimitable.
Synonyms
1. noxious. 2. antagonistic. See hostile.
Antonyms
2. friendly.
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Examples from the Web for inimical
Historical Examples
Wealth is not inimical to welfare; it ought to be its friendliest agency.
United States Presidents’ Inaugural Speeches
Various
When Pausanias remarks that personal attachments are inimical to despots.
Symposium
Plato
“You appear to be inimical to money,” the Angel interjected, with a penetrating look.
Another Sheaf
John Galsworthy
That order of feeling was comprehensible enough to the most inimical of my critics.
Some Reminiscences
Joseph Conrad
Grimness was in every feature, and to its very bowels the inimical shape was desolation.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
They were huge, and ugly, and alien, but they were not inimical to humans.
Rebels of the Red Planet
Charles Louis Fontenay
She looked at him helplessly, so attractive and so inimical to her.
The Coast of Chance
Esther Chamberlain
They are not hostile to employers, not inimical to the interests of the general public.
Socialism As It Is
William English Walling
At noon a large crowd had gathered, composed of those most inimical to the strangers.
Terry
Charles Goff Thomson
It is not only when criticism is inimical that I object to it, but also when it is incompetent.
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
James McNeill Whistler
Anagram
I claim in
Today’s quote
The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.
– Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani
On this day
16 December 1980 – death of Harlan Sanders who eventually becomes a Colonel and chickens throughout Kentucky, and ultimately the rest of the world, are never the same again as he invents Kentucky Fried Chicken. Born 9 September 1890.