inimical
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From Late Latin inimīcālis (“hostile”), from inimīcus (“enemy”) (from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”)) + -ālis.
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inimical (comparative more inimical, superlative most inimical)
- Harmful in effect.
- 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.
- Unfriendly, hostile.
- Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
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harmful
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hostile
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