英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ʌnˈeɪ.mi.ə.bəl/

形容詞

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.

派生語

アナグラム

• unaimable