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enm

enm is the abbreviation of enemy.

Meaning of enemy

Noun

enemy (plural enemies)

  1. Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
    • under enemy duress
    Antonyms:
    ally, friend
  2. A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
    • Rally together against a common enemy.
    Synonyms:
    foe, adversary, nemesis
    Antonyms:
    ally, friend
  3. Something harmful or threatening to another
    • The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought — fresh, soft snow — instantly became the enemy. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. Gravity did the rest.2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013
  4. (attributive) Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
    • The building was destroyed by enemy bombing.
  5. A non-player character that tries to harm the player.
    • Use gadgets like Nakishkas to fend off enemies.2008, “Story Mode”, in Cory in the House: Instruction Booklet, Burbank, California: Disney Interactive Studios; Nintendo, page 8
    Synonyms:
    mob

See all 6 meanings of enemy

Noun capitalized: ENM

ENM (countable and uncountable, plural ENMs)

  1. (metonymically, uncountable) Pornography depicting such a situation.
  2. (countable, rare) The man in such a situation.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of ethical nonmonogamy.
    • As with any good relationship, readers who have experience with ENM say self-awareness and communication are key to keeping things harmonious.2024 January 27, Doosie Morris, “‘Humans are messy’: readers share their experiences with ethical non-monogamy”, in The Guardian
    • He said different things about us, first he said we were in an open relationship, and I said yeah okay, then he said we were in an ethical non-monogamy, ENM, and I said yeah okay.2025, Santanu Bhattacharya, Deviants, Fig Tree, page 89

Forms of enm

pluralENMs

Origin of enm

Various initialisms.

Questions about enm

What does enm mean?
Enm means pornography depicting such a situation.
What is enm the abbreviation of?
Enm is the abbreviation of enemy.
What part of speech is enm?
Enm is a noun.
What is the plural of enm?
The plural of enm is ENMs.

Words near enm in the dictionary

  1. Enlows
  2. enlumine
  3. enlumined
  4. enlumines
  5. enlumining
  6. enm
  7. Enma
  8. Enman
  9. Enmans
  10. enmarble
  11. enmarbled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enm (page history and authors); ENM (page history and authors); enemy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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