inamiable
adj/ɪnˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/
Etymology From in- + amiable. Piecewise doublet of inamicable, inimicable, unamiable, and unamicable.
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Disagreeable, off-putting.
- Homer has been blamed for making his hero Achilles of too brutal and inamiable a character.1783, Hugh Blair, “Lecture XLIII. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey—Virgil’s Æneid.”, in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, T[homas] Cadell, […] and W[illiam] Creech, […], →OCLC, page 435:
- If this be granted, it seems extraordinary that the most inamiable Qualities, and malignant Passions are attributed, without scruple, to the objects of Heathen Idolatry.1835, J. Parsons, “The True Source of Religious Knowledge”, in Sermons, page 174:
3 more examples
- Presently, no country is sufficiently certain of itself to pretend to remain alone in thought and act; there is always something better to take from another. Therefore, the Panamericanism, in Europe, cannot and should not occur to anybody as presenting anything distateful or inamiable.1917, R. L. Lomba, “Statement”, in America House: A Scheme for Creating in Paris an Association Similar to the Washington “Pan American Union”, Paris: Imprimerie des arts et manufactures […], →OCLC, section II, page 5:
- It is one of the inamiable traits of the modern mass mind that magnanimity and good will are too often overshadowed by the forces of hatred and revenge.1947 April 7, “Bitter Legacy”, in China Mail, number 33632, Hong Kong, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
- This makes GIS a very complex system and inamiable to new users.2006, Jianchun Xu, An Approach to Spatial Gathering Technology, page 20:
- Derived terms
- inamiability, inamiably