Word of the Day:
inimical
What It Means
Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
Inimical in Context
“She doesn’t want to touch it, and indeed every particle of her screams against doing so because it is somehow inimical to her.”
Did You Know?
From Late Latin inimīcālis (“hostile”), from inimīcus (“enemy”) (from in- (“not”) + amīcus (“friend”)) + -ālis.
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