Unfriendly

Quick meaning: Unfriendly is an adjective meaning Not friendly; hostile; mean.

Meaning

Not friendly; hostile; mean.

More Meanings

1. Unfavourable.
2. An enemy.
3. in an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend

Example Sentences

Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.

I thought of him as a young man in Washington for the first time, first job with McCarthy, and that that was probably one of the unfriendliest spaces at the time for a gay person.

Shrekkies will notice that the musical is going off-piste from the film right from the start when the curtain rises to reveal a seven-year-old Shrek turfed out into an unfriendly world by his parents.

You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).

Word Forms

• unfriendlier
• unfriendliest
• unfriendlies

Synonyms for unfriendly

Depending on context, synonyms include dour, chilly, cool, beetle-browed, hostile, uncongenial.

Antonyms for unfriendly

Common opposites include friendly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include uncongenial, inhospitable, unneighbourly, unneighborly, inimical, hostile.

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