inimical adj : not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic" [syn: unfriendly]

English

Etymology

From the inimicus “enemy”

Pronunciation

• /ɪˈnɪmɪkəl/

Adjective

1. Harmful in effect

   It has long since been proven that such activities are inimical to the health of the participant.

2. unfriendly; hostile

   His inimical stare caused me to rethink my desire to petition.

Synonyms

• inimicable

Related terms

• inimically

Translations

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