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Synonyms for unfriendly
ʌnˈfrɛnd liun·friend·ly
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
unfriendly
Synonyms:
adverse, alienated, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, cold, contentious, disaffected, distant, estranged, frigid, hostile, ill-disposed, indifferent, inimical, unkind, warlikeAntonyms:
accessible, affable, affectionate, amicable, brotherly, companionable, complaisant, cordial, favorable, fond, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, kindly, loving, neighborly, sociable, social, tender, well-disposed
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
unfriendly
Synonyms:
inhospitable, ungenial, unkind, disobliging
Princeton's WordNet
unfriendlyadjective
not easy to understand or use
"user-unfriendly"
Synonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, inimicalAntonyms:
amiable, companionate, friendly, hospitable, palsy-walsy, informal, neighbourly, matey, affable, pally, hail-fellow-well-met, cozy, couthy, amicable, social, hail-fellow, chummy, cordial, neighborly, comradely, genial, intimate, couthieunfriendlyadjective
not disposed to friendship or friendliness
"an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
Synonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, inimicalAntonyms:
friendly, couthy, hospitable, comradely, companionate, cozy, amicable, couthie, cordial, neighbourly, hail-fellow-well-met, chummy, affable, matey, genial, amiable, intimate, hail-fellow, informal, neighborly, social, pally, palsy-walsyunfriendly, inimicaladjective
not friendly
"an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"
Synonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, inimicalAntonyms:
companionate, genial, chummy, cozy, pally, hail-fellow, couthy, friendly, social, intimate, neighbourly, palsy-walsy, cordial, comradely, hospitable, amiable, hail-fellow-well-met, informal, neighborly, amicable, couthie, matey, affablehostile, uncongenial, unfriendlyadjective
very unfavorable to life or growth
"a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes"
Synonyms:
uncongenial, hostile, incompatible, inimicalAntonyms:
comradely, hail-fellow-well-met, palsy-walsy, chummy, hail-fellow, amiable, genial, cordial, matey, informal, couthy, social, friendly, couthie, hospitable, amicable, companionate, neighborly, neighbourly, pally, cozy, affable, intimate
Editors Contribution
not kind
Dictionary of English Synonymes
unfriendlyadjective
Synonyms:
unkind, hostile, inimical, malevolent, antagonistic
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
unfriendlyadjective
Synonyms:
hostile, ill-disposed, inimical, malign, unamicable, disaffected, alienated, estranged, antagonistic, unfavorable, adverse
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "unfriendly":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1986 | cold | |
#5680 | adverse | |
#9085 | distant | |
#12170 | hostile | |
#17090 | incompatible | |
#24087 | indifferent | |
#27806 | contentious | |
#36720 | alienated | |
#40140 | unfriendly | |
#45446 | estranged | |
#49221 | antagonistic | |
#52117 | frigid | |
#55147 | belligerent | |
#60499 | unkind | |
#64070 | disaffected | |
#66269 | warlike | |
#78003 | inhospitable | |
#88971 | inimical | |
#115380 | bellicose | |
#273499 | uncongenial |
How to use unfriendly in a sentence?
I hope that no parent ever feels like a classroom is an unfriendly place for their kids.
I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby, oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the earth for mankind's use, instead of relying on unfriendly foreign nations for us to import their resources.
I have seen and heard him be very unfriendly to a lot of people in this community, he was very angry, anytime I saw him.
My fear is that if the world feels that it can no longer look with the same level of certainty and confidence to the US or NATO... we will see emboldened moves from actors hostile or unfriendly to a more united Europe, that means that Europe must realize that the weight of the world democratic and security order rests more heavily on Europe's shoulders. It is a wake-up call that we have snoozed too many times.
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
Translations for unfriendly
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- غير وديArabic
- hostil, antipàticCatalan, Valencian
- unfreundlichGerman
- malafablaEsperanto
- negativo, antipático, hostil, desfavorable, desagradableSpanish
- ynseä, epäystävällinenFinnish
- inamicalFrench
- रूखाHindi
- 不親切なJapanese
- hostilisLatin
- onfrëndlechLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- uvennligNorwegian
- onvriendelijkDutch
- ostil, neprietenosRomanian
- недружелю́бный, недру́жественныйRussian
- 不友善Chinese
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