Dictionary Definition
unfriendly adj
1 not easy to understand or use;
"user-unfriendly" [ant: friendly]
2 not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an
unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"
[ant: friendly]
3 lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting";
"an unfriendly manner" [syn: chilly]
4 not friendly; "an unfriendly act of
aggression"; "an inimical critic" [syn: inimical]
5 very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile
climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the
unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: hostile, uncongenial] [also: unfriendliest, unfriendlier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- not friendly; hostile
- unfavourable
Antonyms
Translations
not friendly; hostile
- Dutch: onvriendelijk
- Romanian: neprietenos
Extensive Definition
Friendly means behaving in a kind way to someone, as a
friend would behave.
The opposite is unfriendly.
It is also the name of:
- Several places in the United States of America:
- People
- Edgar Friendly was a rebel leader in the 1990s movie Demolition Man
- Fred W. Friendly was a former president of CBS News
- Henry Friendly was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- An Australian electronic musical group:
- A Book Character
It can also mean:
- A friendly match, a non-competitive game in team sports such as football.
- Friendly's, an American restaurant chain
unfriendly in Dutch: Friendly
unfriendly in Polish: Friendly
unfriendly in Volapük: Friendly
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adversary, adversative, adverse, aggressive, alien, allergic, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, autistic, averse, bashful, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, chauvinist, chauvinistic, chill, chilly, clashing, close, closed, cold, combative, competitive, con, conflicting, contentious, contradictory, contrary, cool, counter, cross, disaccordant, disaffected, disenchanted, disinclined, displeased, dissentient, dissociable, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, fractious, frosty, full of fight, hawkish, hostile, icy, ill, incompatible, inhospitable, inimical, insociable, jingo, jingoish, jingoist, jingoistic, martial, militant, militaristic, military, mopey, mopish, morose, negative, noncooperative, nongregarious, not
charmed, obstinate,
offensive, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, overthwart, perverse, pugnacious, put off, quarrelsome, recalcitrant, refractory, repugnant, rival, saber-rattling, sanguinary, sanguineous, savage, scrappy, self-contained,
self-sufficient, snug,
socially incompatible, soldierlike, soldierly, strained, sullen, tense, trigger-happy, truculent, unamiable, unamicable, unclubbable, uncommunicative,
uncompanionable,
uncongenial,
uncooperative,
uncordial, unfavorable, ungenial, ungracious, unharmonious, unhospitable, unneighborly, unpacific, unpeaceable, unpeaceful, unpropitious, unreceptive, unsociable, unsocial, warlike, warmongering, warring