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Word entry · 8 letters

inimical

Best crossword clue

"Unfriendly in effect"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kəl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aciiilmnStarts with IEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. not friendly

Word origin

From Late Latin inimīcālis (“hostile”), from inimīcus (“enemy”) (from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”)) + -ālis.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • She doesn’t want to touch it, and indeed every particle of her screams against doing so because it is somehow inimical to her.
  • Her inimical attitude precludes romance.

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