inimicaladj.
/ɪˈnɪmɪkəl/ 1. Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly, hostile. Const. to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [adjective]
witherwardc888
unholdc900
fremda1000
foeOE
hatelyOE
onwardOE
fiendlyc1050
witherc1175
unbaina1300
quedec1300
wrong1340
aliena1382
enemiablea1382
enemyfula1382
enemyc1384
ingrate1393
unfriendly1425
undisposed1456
oppugnanta1513
infest1513
enemious?1529
cold1557
enemylike1561
enemyly1573
ingratefulc1575
opposed1584
misliking1586
infestuous1593
infensive1596
infestious1597
affrontous1598
foe-hearted1598
ill-affecteda1599
inimicous1598
friendless?1611
haggardly1635
infensea1641
inimicitious1641
inimicitial1656
inimical1678
inamicable1683
indisposed1702
uneasy1725
hostile1791
adversarial1839
chilly1841
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) List Barbarous Words Inimical, having an enmity against.
1758 S. Richardson Corr. (1804) V. 189 Poor Dr. Clayton! inimical man! Persecutor to his power!
1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) ii. 324 A prince inimical to civil and religious liberty.
1794 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 395 Nine-tenths of the nation are inimical to the government.
1837 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens II. iv. v. 414 He lent himself to the consolidation of aristrocracies, and was equally inimical to democracy and tyranny.
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. ii. 26 Their ravages are confined to hostile countries and inimical nations.
1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie II. iii. 41 The few goats on the mountain were for a time very inimical to him.
2. Adverse or injurious in tendency or influence; harmful, hurtful. Const. to.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > [adjective]
litherc893
scathefulc900
balefulOE
orneOE
teenfulOE
evilc1175
venomousc1290
scathela1300
prejudiciala1325
fell?c1335
harmfula1340
grievous1340
ill1340
wicked1340
noisomea1382
venomed1382
noyfulc1384
damageousc1386
mischievousc1390
unwholesomea1400
undisposingc1400
damnablec1420
prejudiciable1429
contagiousc1440
damagefulc1449
pestiferous1458
damageable1474
pestilent?a1475
nuisable1483
nocible1490
nuisible1490
nuisant1494
noxiousa1500
nocent?c1500
pestilential1531
tortious1532
pestilentious1533
nocive1538
offensivea1548
vitiating1547
dangerous1548
offending1552
dispendious1557
injurious1559
offensible1575
offensant1578
baneful1579
incommodious1579
prejudicious1579
prejudical1595
inimicous1598
damnifiable1604
taking1608
obnoxious1612
nocivousc1616
mischieving1621
nocuous1627
nocumentous1644
disserviceable1645
inimical1645
detrimentous1648
injuring1651
detrimental1656
inimicitial1656
nocumental1657
incommodous1677
fatal1681
inimic1696
nociferous1706
damnific1727
inimicable1805
violational1821
insalutary1836
detrimentary1841
wronging1845
unsalvatory1850
damaging1856
damnous1870
wack1986
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious > in tendency or detrimental
injurious1559
marring1567
inimicous1598
blemishing1603
disserviceable1645
inimical1645
detrimentous1648
detrimental1656
inimicitial1656
inimic1696
inimicable1805
violational1821
detrimentary1841
vitiating1858
blotching1865
1645 E. Udall Serm. 18 in J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy The Papists..slander the doctrine of salvation by faith as inimicall to good works.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 185 [Ignorant persons] are diligent to procure such things as are inimical and hurtful to it [health].
1783 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 3 July [To] fortify me against the winter, which has been, in modern phrase, of late years very inimical to, Madam, Your [etc.].
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 169 Practices inimical to health.
1879 A. R. Wallace Australasia xi. 226 Fresh water is very inimical to coral.
Derivatives
iˈnimically adv. in an inimical or hostile manner.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [adverb]
unfriendlyOE
witherc1200
enemylike1382
enemylyc1384
unsaughtly?a1400
unfriendfully1513
enemiously1529
enemyfully1530
coldly1550
inimicously1598
hostilely1609
inimicitiously1662
inimically1836
unfriendlily1864
1836 B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled Inimically.
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 99 Danskermen were on their part inimically estranged from their Roman kinsmen.
1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice II. viii. 107 Josephine received them not inimically.
iˈnimicalness n. = inimicality n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > hostility > [noun]
unthankc893
witherwardnessc897
witherOE
wrakea1023
ungrithlOE
feythhed1297
grill13..
ill1303
unfriendshipa1340
enmity?a1400
feuda1400
despitec1400
unkindnessc1400
ingratitude1477
barrace1488
disfriendship1493
hostility1531
dislovea1533
adversation1543
diskindness1596
disaffection1599
ill blood1624
disaffectedness1625
inimicalness1651
unfriendlinessa1684
animus1795
inimicality1797
virus1866
negativism1977
1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 26 Accidental inimicalness to Planets, is when they are in square or opposition, &c. the one to the other. Also Inimicalness must needs be in the Signs.
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