Usually means: Harmful or hostile in nature.
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  1. inimical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inimical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inimical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inimical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inimical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inimical, inimical: Wordnik
  7. inimical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inimical: Wiktionary
  9. inimical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inimical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inimical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inimical, inimical: Dictionary.com
  13. inimical: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Inimical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inimical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inimical: Rhymezone
  17. Inimical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inimical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inimical: Free Dictionary
  20. inimical: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. inimical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inimical: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. inimical: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inimical: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inimical: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inimical: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Harmful in effect.
adjective:  Unfriendly, hostile.

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