AskDefine | Define unfriendly

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

  1. not friendly; hostile
  2. unfavourable

Antonyms

Translations

not friendly; hostile

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:
It can also mean:
As a noun, it also refers to a non-competitive sporting fixture.
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
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