Unamiable
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not amiable; not likable.
"A daguerreotype likeness, do you mean? […] I don’t much like pictures of that sort—they are so hard and stern; besides dodging away from the eye, and trying to escape altogether. They are conscious of looking very unamiable, I suppose, and therefore hate to be seen."
Example
More examples"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
Etymology
From un- + amiable. Piecewise doublet of inamiable, inamicable, inimicable, and unamicable.
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