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unfriendly
CEFRA2
/ʌnˈfɹɛn(d)li/
adjective · adverb
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Not kind, welcoming, or pleasant.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailAn enemy.
Examples
Can you figure out why the boss is so unfriendly this week?
Mary looks unfriendly, but she is really very kind at heart.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 4
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 2
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningNot friendly; hostile; mean.
adverb
Extra meaningin an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend
More examples
In contextShrekkies 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.
Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
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.
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Origin
adjective
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”).