Inimical vs Alienate - What's the difference?
inimical | alienate |
Harmful in effect.
Unfriendly, hostile.
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.
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As adjectives the difference between inimical and alienate
is that inimical is harmful in effect while alienate is estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .As a noun alienate is
(obsolete) a stranger; an alien.As a verb alienate is
to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.inimical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Suicide is inimical to the health of the participant.
- Her inimical attitude precludes romance.
Synonyms
* inimic, inimicablealienate
English
Adjective
(-)- O alienate from God''. (John Milton). ''Paradise Lost line 4643.
Verb
(alienat)- The errors which alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
- The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.