MEANING
1. Showing opposition or ill will toward someone or something.
2. Unfavorable or harmful to something.
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- inimical attitude
- inimical to reform
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The governor was inimical to reform.
An inimical attitude chilled the reception.
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- inimical
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more inimical; superlative most inimical where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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