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INIMICAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inimical mean?
• INIMICAL (adjective)
The adjective INIMICAL has 1 sense:
1. not friendly
Familiarity information: INIMICAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not friendly
Synonyms:
inimical; unfriendly
Context example:
an inimical critic
Similar:
hostile (characterized by enmity or ill will)
Derivation:
enmity (the feeling of a hostile person)
enmity (a state of deep-seated ill-will)
Context examples
Mary was not so repulsive and unsisterly as Elizabeth, nor so inaccessible to all influence of hers; neither was there anything among the other component parts of the cottage inimical to comfort.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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