Today’s Words That Work: Inimical

By Early To Rise | Mon, May 9, 2011 |

  

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Inimical (ih-NIM-ih-kul) – from the Latin for “unfriendly” – means unfavorable, antagonistic, or adverse.

Example (as used by Terence Brown in The Life of W.B. Yeats): “Yeats’s conflict with his father was not only about the conventional employment which J.B. Yeats believed was inimical to creative freedom.”

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