Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inamiable

/ɪnˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-ami-able
IPA: /ɪnˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Disagreeable, off-putting.

Example Sentences

"Homer has been blamed for making his hero Achilles of too brutal and inamiable a character."
"If this be granted, it seems extraordinary that the most inamiable Qualities, and malignant Passions are attributed, without scruple, to the objects of Heathen Idolatry."
"Presently, no country is sufficiently certain of itself to pretend to remain alone in thought and act; there is always something better to take from another. Therefore, the Panamericanism, in Europe, cannot and should not occur to anybody as presenting anything distateful or inamiable."
"It is one of the inamiable traits of the modern mass mind that magnanimity and good will are too often overshadowed by the forces of hatred and revenge."
"This makes GIS a very complex system and inamiable to new users."

Etymology

From in- + amiable. Piecewise doublet of inamicable, inimicable, unamiable, and unamicable.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: in

Inflected Forms

more inamiable (comparative) most inamiable (superlative)

Derived Forms

inamiability inamiably

Synonyms

unamiable

Questions

How do you pronounce inamiable?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪnˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/.
What does inamiable mean?: Disagreeable, off-putting.
Where does inamiable come from?: From in- + amiable. Piecewise doublet of inamicable, inimicable, unamiable, and unamicable.

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