Inimical
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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