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unfriendly

adj
/ʌnˈfɹɛn(d)li/

Etymology

From Middle English unfrendly, unfrendli, unfrendely, from Old English *unfrēondlīċ (suggested by derivative unfrēondlīċe (“in an unfriendly manner; unfriendly”, adverb)), equivalent to un- + friendly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunfrüntelk, uunfjuntelk (“unfriendly”), West Frisian ûnfreonlik (“unfriendly”), Dutch onvriendelijk (“unfriendly”), German Low German unfrünnelk (“unfriendly”), German unfreundlich (“unfriendly”), Faroese ófryntligur (“unfriendly”), Icelandic ófrýnilegur (“ugly; disturbing”).

  1. inherited from *unfrēondlīċ✻
  2. inherited from unfrendly

Definitions

  1. Not friendly

    Not friendly; hostile; mean.

    • 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.
    • 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.

  2. Unfavourable.

  3. An enemy.

    • Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. in an unkind or unfriendly manner

      in an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend

The neighborhood

Derived

eco-unfriendly, user-unfriendly

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unfriendly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA