unamiable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ amiable. Piecewise doublet of inamiable, inamicable, inimicable, and unamicable.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʌnˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/

Adjective

unamiable (comparative more unamiable, superlative most unamiable)

  1. Not amiable; not likable.
    Synonym: inamiable
    • 1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Maule’s Well”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 101:
      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.
    • 1876, Golden Hours: A Magazine for Boys and Girls, volume 8, page 208:
      Burning torches and heated irons are sometimes resorted to as aids in subduing unamiable and obstinate animals.

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