inimical
/ɪˈnɪ.mɪ.kəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.17 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "From its inception, the index has provided a window onto the history of the book, for it took the advent of a particular type of book — the codex, a sheaf of pages fastened along one edge — to make an index a practical possibility. The progenitor of the modern bound book, the codex gradually supplanted the scroll, a medium inimical to the indexer’s art."
- "Her inimical attitude precludes romance."
Etymology
From Late Latin inimīcālis (“hostile”), from inimīcus (“enemy”) (from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”)) + -ālis.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: inimīcālis
Inflected Forms
more inimical (comparative)
most inimical (superlative)