inimical
Meaning of inimical
adjective
- tending to obstruct or harm.
the policy was inimical to Britain's real interests
early 16th century: from late Latin inimicalis, from Latin inimicus (see enemy).
Information about inimical
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Hyphenation of inimical
in-im-i-cal
- It consists of 4 syllables and 8 chars.
- inimical is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
inimical synonyms
Meaning unfriendly:
Meaning causing or likely to cause harm:
Meaning causing or likely to cause damage or harm:
Meaning tending to cause harm:
Meaning causing harm or damage:
Meaning having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way:
Meaning causing physical damage:
Meaning causing distress to someone's feelings:
Meaning able or likely to cause harm or injury:
Meaning causing great and irreparable damage:
Meaning disastrous or destructive:
Meaning involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous:
Meaning showing or feeling active opposition or hostility towards someone or something:
Meaning opposite in nature, direction, or meaning:
Meaning showing or feeling a strong aversion:
Meaning expressing or showing a lack of approval or support:
Meaning preventing success or development; harmful; unfavourable:
Meaning anxious to prevent or put an end to; disagreeing with:
Meaning opposed:
Meaning harmful to someone or something; detrimental:
Meaning causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means:
inimical antonyms
Meaning giving or ready to give help:
Meaning involving or creating favourable circumstances that increase the chances of success or effectiveness; beneficial:
Translation of inimical
- Italian: nemico, ostile
- German: schädlich, abträglich, feindselig, feindlich, nachteilig, unhold, unfreundlich
- Spanish: desagradable, antipático, antipática
- French: inamical, hostile, malveillant
Anagrams of inimical
Words that rhyme with inimical
Chaldaical, Hebraical, Judaical, Mosaical, Pharisaical, Ptolemaical, algebraical, archaical, hebraical, judaical, laical, mesaraical, mosaical, nonalgebraical, paradisaical, pharisaical, phrarisaical, prosaical, spondaical, stanzaical, subalgebraical, trocaical, unalgebraical, unpharasaical, unprosaical, astrolabical, asyllabical, cherubical, coxcombical, cubical, globical, hydrophobical, iambical, monosyllabical, nabobical, orbical, parisyllabical, polysyllabical, pseudocubical, quadrisyllabical, rhombical, semicubical, subcubical, subrhombical, syllabical, tetrasyllabical, tetrsyllabical, trisyllabical, uncubical, duncical
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