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inimical
Synonyms and Antonyms of inimical
- received an inimical response rather than the anticipated support
adverse, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, clashing, combative, conflicting, contentious, contrary, disputatious, militant, opposed, pugnacious, quarrelsome, resisting, scrappy, truculent
antisocial, cold, cool, disagreeable, disapproving, distant, frigid, icy
acrimonious, bitter, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, opprobrious, rancorous, spiteful, unloving, vindictive, virulent
affable, amiable, amicable, civil, companionable, comradely, convivial, cordial, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, gregarious, neighborly, pleasant, sociable, social, warm
affectionate, devoted, kind, kindly, loving, nice, sweet
accepting, agreeable, approving, benign, empathetic, favorable, understanding, warmhearted, welcoming
- laws designed to enhance national security that some regard as inimical to cherished freedoms
damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, fatal, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, lethal, malignant, murderous, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, ruinous, threatening, troublesome, unhealthy, wounding
dangerous, hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, perilous, risky, unsafe
defamatory, detractive, offensive, scathing, slanderous
antagonistic, antipathetic, inhospitable, intolerant, uncongenial, uncooperative
competing, conflicting, counteracting, countering, opposing, resistant, resisting
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