inimical
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin inimīcālis (“hostile”), from inimīcus (“enemy”) (from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”)) + -ālis.
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[edit]inimical (comparative more inimical, superlative most inimical)
- Harmful in effect.
- 2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid[1], Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 66:
- Slaves knew that some of the treatments worsened problems and, perhaps most important, they realized that a master's interest in their fitness for work was sometimes inimical to their health.
- 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 178:
- She doesn’t want to touch it, and indeed every particle of her screams against doing so because it is somehow inimical to her.
- 2022 February 15, Margalit Fox, “Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 July 2022:
- From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility. The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art.
- Unfriendly, hostile.
- Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
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hostile
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