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inimicous

inimicous is the obsolete form of inimical.

Meaning of inimical

Adjective

inimical (comparative more inimical, superlative most inimical)

  1. Harmful in effect.
    • 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.2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 66
  2. Unfriendly, hostile.
    • Her inimical attitude precludes romance.

Forms of inimicous

comparativemore inimicous
superlativemost inimicous

Origin of inimicous

Latin inimicus.

Questions about inimicous

What is inimicous the obsolete form of?
Inimicous is the obsolete form of inimical.

Words near inimicous in the dictionary

  1. inimicality
  2. inimically
  3. inimicalness
  4. inimicitious
  5. inimicitiously
  6. inimicous
  7. inimitability
  8. inimitable
  9. inimitableness
  10. inimitably
  11. inimplantable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inimicous (page history and authors); inimical (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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