What is another word for inimical?
652 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɪnˈɪmɪkə͡l], [ ɪnˈɪmɪkəl], [ ɪ_n_ˈɪ_m_ɪ_k_əl]
Inimical is a strong word that means harmful, hostile, or unfriendly. There are several synonyms that you can use instead of inimical, depending on the context and the tone. For instance, words like adverse, detrimental, or damaging can help convey a sense of danger or threat without being too aggressive. If you want to emphasize the opposition or conflict, you can use words like antagonistic, contrary, or hostile. Other synonyms for inimical that can work well in different situations include opposed, unfavourable, against, or adverse. Ultimately, the choice of synonyms depends on the desired effect and the nuances of the situation, but having a wide range of options can help you communicate more effectively and precisely.
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Similar words for inimical:
- adverse (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- antagonistic, contrary (adjective)
- averse (adjective)
- contrarious (adjective)
- contrary (adjective)
- detrimental (adjective)
- glacial (adjective)
- harmful (adjective)
- hostile (adjective)
- ill (adjective)
- indisposed (adjective)
- malign (adjective)
- opposed/opposing (adjective)
- opposite (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- prejudicial (adjective)
- repugnant (adjective)
- unadvantageous (adjective)
- unfavorable (adjective)
- unfriendly (adjective)
- untoward (adjective)
- unwholesome (adjective)
- vengeful (adjective)
- warlike (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- unfriendly (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Inimical:
adj.
• adverse (adjective) • all (adjective) • antagonistic, contrary (adjective) • averse (adjective)- more ill disposed,
- more ill-disposed,
- dis-inclined,
- dis inclined,
- most illdisposed,
- dis-liking,
- more disliking,
- ill disposed,
- illdisposed,
- most ill disposed,
- un eager,
- anti-pathetic,
- more uneager,
- anti pathetic,
- most ill-disposed,
- un-eager,
- dis liking,
- most disliking,
- most uneager,
- more illdisposed.
- most dissentient,
- obstinate,
- dis-sentient,
- in-consistent,
- most recusant,
- most contrariant,
- more clashing,
- head strong,
- in tractable,
- more contrariant,
- more dissentient,
- stubborn,
- most anti,
- anti thetical,
- more anti,
- non conforming,
- wayward,
- most paradoxical,
- more reverse,
- headstrong,
- more recusant,
- more wrongheaded,
- most wrongheaded,
- most reverse,
- re verse,
- dis sentient,
- nonconformist,
- non conformist,
- in-subordinate,
- in consistent,
- Non-conforming,
- most clashing,
- anti-thetical,
- re-verse,
- more paradoxical,
- in subordinate,
- in-tractable.
- dis-approving,
- in hospitable,
- most oppugnant,
- more unwelcoming,
- in-hospitable,
- un kind,
- un welcoming,
- un-kind,
- un kinder,
- un kindest,
- un-sociable,
- un sociable,
- un sympathetic,
- more oppugnant,
- most disapproving,
- most unwelcoming,
- un-welcoming,
- more disapproving,
- dis approving,
- un-kinder,
- un-kindest.
- most unpromising,
- fore boding,
- in-auspicious,
- un promising,
- un gracious,
- most foreboding,
- dis-respectful,
- most nocent,
- in auspicious,
- more foreboding,
- more nocent,
- more unpromising,
- illmannered,
- inauspicious,
- fore-boding,
- un-promising,
- un-gracious,
- ill mannered,
- dis respectful.
- more uninclined,
- in disposed,
- un inclined,
- in-disposed,
- most uninclined,
- un caring,
- un-inclined,
- un-caring.
- more protesting,
- most denying,
- most defending,
- more facing,
- most exposing,
- most repelling,
- most objecting,
- more enemy,
- at crosspurposes,
- most controverting,
- most gainsaying,
- most combating,
- most battling,
- more combating,
- more battling,
- dis agreeing,
- restrictive,
- in compatible,
- most disputed,
- more obstructive,
- more repelling,
- de fending,
- ex posing,
- against grain,
- more disputing,
- most enemy,
- most crossing,
- most protesting,
- ex-posing,
- more disputed,
- pro testing,
- most obstructive,
- most opposed,
- dis-agreeing,
- more crossing,
- more exposing,
- more controverting,
- more objecting,
- most facing,
- pro-testing,
- more denying,
- in-compatible,
- de-fending,
- more defending,
- more gainsaying,
- most disputing.
- unsimilar,
- Fronting,
- independent,
- diametrically opposed,
- unalike,
- violative,
- most opposite,
- flipside,
- flip-side.
- unwelcoming,
- nocent,
- Contrariant,
- misfortunate,
- ructious,
- contrarious,
- in opposition,
- obstructive,
- uninclined,
- differential,
- Unpliable,
- maleficent,
- prejudicial,
- counterproductive,
- non-conformist,
- Oppugnant,
- detrimental,
- warlike,
- unadvantageous,
- malign,
- against the grain,
- gladiatorial,
- repugnant,
- anti-social,
- adverse,
- untoward,
- unfitted,
- dissentient,
- head-strong,
- opposite,
- unpromising,
- vengeful,
- contrary,
- unfavorable,
- uneager,
- glacial,
- ill-disposed,
- Inconsonant,
- harmful,
- recusant,
- hawkish,
- up against,
- resentful,
- Discommodious,
- unneighborly,
- at odds,
- warmongering,
- unfriendly,
- counter-productive,
- wrongheaded,
- at cross purposes,
- paradoxical,
- at cross-purposes,
- hostile,
- having no use for,
- unconformable,
- anti,
- pathological,
- opposed.
- un justest,
- counter productive,
- most differential,
- more differential,
- dis criminatory,
- un juster,
- more counterproductive,
- un-just,
- most counterproductive,
- pre judicial,
- un-justest,
- un just,
- dis-criminatory,
- pre-judicial,
- un-juster.
- dis tasteful,
- most inconsonant,
- dis gusting,
- dis-agreeable,
- most unfitted,
- most against,
- most unconformable,
- un conformable,
- more revulsive,
- more against,
- in consonant,
- dis-tasteful,
- Revulsive,
- more unconformable,
- un fitted,
- more inconsonant,
- un-conformable,
- dis-gusting,
- dis agreeable,
- in-consonant,
- un-fitted,
- most revulsive,
- more unfitted.
- un-seasonable,
- un seemliest,
- un-seemlier,
- more discommodious,
- un timeliest,
- un-favorable,
- un seasonable,
- in convenient,
- most discommodious,
- in expedient,
- un-seemliest,
- un timelier,
- in felicitous,
- un seemly,
- in-expedient,
- in-felicitous,
- un timely,
- illadvised,
- un favorable,
- in advisable,
- un-fit,
- un-timelier,
- un-suited,
- un seemlier,
- dis commodious,
- in-advisable,
- un-timely,
- dis-commodious,
- un suited,
- in-convenient,
- un-timeliest.
- un-charitable,
- not speaking terms,
- un friendlier,
- un friendliest,
- more unneighborly,
- more grudging,
- un-friendlier,
- un congenial,
- mis anthropic,
- un-congenial,
- un neighborly,
- un-friendly,
- un-friendliest,
- dis-affected,
- most grudging,
- un charitable,
- un-neighborly,
- dis affected,
- un friendly,
- mis-anthropic,
- most unneighborly,
- most estranged,
- more estranged,
- anti social,
- not on speaking terms.
- un-manageable,
- un-yielding,
- un happier,
- un happiest,
- starcrossed,
- un-happy,
- un yielding,
- mis-fortunate,
- un disciplined,
- unpliabler,
- un happy,
- un-pliable,
- un pliable,
- un pliablest,
- star crossed,
- un-governable,
- illstarred,
- unpliablest,
- Star-crossed,
- un manageable,
- ill starred,
- un pliabler,
- in-docile,
- un-pliabler,
- more misfortunate,
- un-pliablest,
- in docile,
- most misfortunate,
- mis fortunate.
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v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- opposing.
- unpacific,
- bloodthirsty,
- full of fight,
- enmity,
- chilly,
- countervailing,
- injuriously,
- at variance,
- reverse,
- negative,
- Disaccordant,
- resistant,
- jingo,
- wickedly,
- bleak,
- disadvantageous,
- belligerently,
- unsympathetic,
- chill,
- opponent,
- troublesome,
- military,
- Contradistinct,
- antonymous,
- refractory,
- barren,
- conflicting,
- counter,
- Compensating,
- despitefully,
- breakaway,
- adversary,
- uncordial,
- antagonistic,
- oppositive,
- fierce,
- Aversely,
- bitterness,
- cool,
- savage,
- contradictory,
- sword,
- competitive,
- Counteracting,
- animosity,
- absolute,
- uninviting,
- desolate,
- hostility,
- cross,
- Renitent,
- xenophobic,
- aversion,
- frosty,
- miserable,
- Animosities,
- animus,
- feud,
- take umbrage,
- oppositional,
- balancing,
- conversely,
- hostilely,
- unique,
- counteractant,
- recalcitrant,
- antipathetical,
- dissenter,
- unpeaceful,
- inhospitable,
- discrepant,
- maliciously,
- discordantly,
- Against,
- self-willed,
- contrarily,
- saber rattling,
- bloody,
- grim,
- difficult,
- alien,
- confronting,
- Inimically,
- noisome,
- martial,
- discordant,
- detrimentally,
- bloody-minded,
- sanguinary,
- forlorn,
- unwholesome,
- unpeaceable,
- icy,
- antithetical,
- adversely,
- uncongenial,
- be inimical,
- militant,
- militaristic,
- troublous,
- dismal,
- fighting,
- adversive,
- con,
- at daggers drawn,
- perniciously,
- vengefully,
- jingoish,
- counterbalancing,
- unaccommodating,
- Unamiable,
- malice,
- jaundiced,
- unsocial,
- converse,
- reactionary,
- sanguineous,
- antagonism,
- indisposed,
- hard,
- oppositely,
- scrappy,
- exclusive,
- soldierlike,
- belligerent,
- bare,
- stressful,
- squared off,
- cross-grained,
- chauvinistic,
- offish,
- limited,
- irreconcilable,
- pestiferous,
- inconsistent,
- stern,
- vindictively,
- unharmonious,
- enemy,
- Contradicting,
- Battling,
- antisocial,
- Malignly,
- deserted,
- combative,
- at enmity,
- antipathy,
- tense,
- rigorous,
- quarrelsome,
- unfavourable,
- antithetic,
- ferocious,
- spitefully,
- Overthwart,
- alienate,
- be at loggerheads,
- standoffish,
- forbidding,
- contrasting,
- aggression,
- offensive,
- dissident,
- wretched,
- unsociable,
- not easy,
- mortal,
- unshared,
- rival,
- inverse,
- foe,
- conflict,
- contumacious,
- pugnacious,
- noncooperative,
- sinister,
- adversative,
- aggressive,
- war,
- stark,
- crotchety,
- in conflict,
- clashing,
- unhealthy,
- restricted,
- contentious,
- froward,
- averse,
- estrange,
- counterpoised,
- Contrasted,
- aloof,
- uncooperative,
- viciously,
- antagonist,
- bear malice,
- trigger-happy,
- destructively,
- unfortunate,
- fractious,
- cranky,
- revolutionary,
- obverse,
- dreary,
- soldierly,
- resentment,
- counterworking,
- warring,
- perverse,
- incompatible,
- jingoist,
- gaunt,
- contradictorily,
- harsh,
- fall out,
- unreceptive,
- strained,
- argumentative,
- trying,
- contrapositive,
- truculent,
- ungenial,
- brutally,
- deleterious,
- counteractive,
- bellicose,
- jingoistic,
- antagonistically,
- chauvinist,
- rapier,
- opposed to.
How to use "Inimical" in context?
Throughout human history, various groups have had animosity towards each other, AKA hostile relations. This is especially true when it comes to relationships between different races, cultures, and even species. This phenomenon can often be traced back to when one group perceives the other as a threat to its well-being or way of life.
There are a number of reasons why groups might view each other in a negative light. Like anything else, it can be based on a number of factors including power, morality, and ideology. In some cases, it can also be fueled by jealousy or malicious intent.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
harmful.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
confrontational, contradictory, inclement, inconsistent, inhospitable, opposed, pernicious, unfriendly.
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Other Related
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Adjective
adverse, antagonistic, antithetical, averse, contrary, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, disruptive, hostile, incompatible, injurious, negative, opposite, prejudicial, unfavorable, unfavourable.
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