enemy

hostile opponent

Roots

Other words with the amic root

  • amiable: friendly and pleasant
  • amicable: friendly or peaceable
  • amigo: friend; familiar Spanish borrowing in English
  • amity: friendship or peaceful relations
  • enmity: deep hostility
  • inimical: hostile or harmful

Other words with the inim / enemy root

Enemy is the familiar doorway into enmity and inimical: hostility made personal.

The real enemy was not the hard word but the fog around it.

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