Inimical \In*im"i*cal\ (?; 277), a. [L. inimicalis, fr. inimicus
unfriendly, hostile; pref. in- not + amicus friendly. See
Amity.]
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1. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly;
unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is
to public, enmity.
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2. Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic;
inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
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We are at war with a system, which, by its essence,
is inimical to all other governments. --Burke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inimical
adj : not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an
inimical critic" [syn: unfriendly]
WordNet (r) 2.0
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "inimical":
adversary, adversative, adverse, adversive, aggressive, alien,
antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, antonymous,
at cross-purposes, balancing, battling, bellicose, belligerent,
bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, breakaway, chauvinist,
chauvinistic, chill, chilly, clashing, cold, combative,
compensating, competitive, con, conflicting, confronting,
contentious, contradicting, contradictory, contradistinct,
contrapositive, contrarious, contrary, contrasted, converse, cool,
counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive,
counterbalancing, counterpoised, countervailing, counterworking,
cranky, cross, crotchety, dead against, detrimental, difficult,
disaccordant, discordant, discrepant, dissentient, dissident,
enemy, eyeball to eyeball, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fractious,
frosty, full of fight, hard, harmful, hawkish, hostile, icy, ill,
in opposition, incompatible, inconsistent, inhospitable, inverse,
jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant,
militaristic, military, miserable, negative, nonconformist,
noncooperative, not easy, obstinate, obverse, offensive, opponent,
opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant,
overthwart, perverse, pugnacious, quarrelsome, reactionary,
recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, repugnant, resistant, reverse,
revolutionary, rigorous, rival, saber-rattling, sanguinary,
sanguineous, savage, scrappy, sinister, soldierlike, soldierly,
squared off, strained, stressful, tense, trigger-happy,
troublesome, troublous, truculent, trying, unamiable, unamicable,
uncooperative, uncordial, unfavorable, unfriendly, ungenial,
unharmonious, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpropitious,
unsociable, untoward, warlike, warmongering, warring, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
unfriendly
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