inamiable

From in- +‎ amiable.^[1] Piecewise doublet of inamicable, inimicable, unamiable, and unamicable.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/

inamiable (comparative more inamiable, superlative most inamiable)

1. Disagreeable, off-putting.

   Synonym: unamiable

   • 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:

     Homer has been blamed for making his hero Achilles of too brutal and inamiable a character.

   • 1835, J. Parsons, “The True Source of Religious Knowledge”, in Sermons‎^[1], page 174:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1947 April 7, “Bitter Legacy”, in China Mail, number 33632, Hong Kong, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:

     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.

   • 2006, Jianchun Xu, An Approach to Spatial Gathering Technology, page 20:

     This makes GIS a very complex system and inamiable to new users.

• “inamiable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.