Unfriendly \Un*friend"ly\, a.
1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an
unfriendly neighbor.
[1913 Webster]
2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any
object; as, weather unfriendly to health.
[1913 Webster] --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
132 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfriendly":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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