Unfriendly

Definition: Unfriendly

Unfriendly

Adjective

1. (in combination) not easy to understand or use; "user-unfriendly".

2. Not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take".

3. Lacking warmth of feeling; "a chilly greeting"; "an unfriendly manner".

4. Not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic".

5. Very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes".

Date "unfriendly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Unfriendly

Synonyms: chilly (adj), hostile (adj), inimical (adj), uncongenial (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: friendly (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Enmity	Adjective: inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggers drawn,at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.
Malevolence	Harsh, disobliging; unkind, unfriendly, ungracious; inofficious; invidious; uncandid; churlish; (discourteous); surly, sullen; a.
Opposition	Unfavorable, unfriendly; hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unfriendly

English words defined with "unfriendly": aggravation, aggression, alienator ♦ bark, beetle-browed ♦ chilly, cold, cool ♦ Disaffectionate, Dissocial ♦ hostile, hostility ♦ ill will, inimical, Inimicitious, irritation ♦ offish ♦ provocation ♦ scowling, standoffish ♦ The Monroe doctrine, To make strange ♦ Un-, unapproachability, uncongenial, unfriendliness, Unfriendship, unthreatening ♦ well-meaning. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unfriendly": Affront ♦ Backgammon ♦ dirty power, dogpile ♦ renown ♦ Squirrel, Stammer ♦ Wadding, Wages. (references)

Etymologies containing "unfriendly": Disaffectionate ♦ inimical. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Courage is no match for an unfriendly shoe, Countess (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)
Movie/TV Titles	Unfriendly Enemies (1925) An Unfriendly Call (1897)
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Domain	Title
Books	Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World (reference) Friends-What Would I Do Without Them? Finding Real And Valuable Friendships in An Unfriendly World (reference) Real Unfriendly Skies: Saga of Corruption (reference) Standing Fast: Ministry in an Unfriendly World (Mastering Ministry's Pressure Points) (reference) Unfriendly Alliance (reference) (more book examples)

Music	I Try Ot Be Unfriendly [IMPORT] (reference) Undead Unfriendly & Unstoppabl (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	America's strawberry growers are testing various new methods of growing bautiful berries like this one without using methyl bromide, an effective but environmentally unfriendly soil fumigant that's scheduled for phaseout by 2005. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..		America's strawberry growers are testing various new methods of growing beautiful berries like these without using methyl bromide, an effective but environmentally unfriendly soil fumigant that's scheduled for phaseout by 2005. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Brian Prechtel..
	Garfield's bond of friendship for the unfriendly senators / SC. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Walter Bagehot	A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		This growth was achieved despite several irritants such as component shortages, currency devaluation that kept the average sales value (ASV) of PCs on the higher side, confusion over sales tax policies and an unfriendly union budget. (references)
		TVEs and TVIs are private enterprises of various kinds of established in villages and towns, most of them invested in by rural collective organizations or farmers, and most utilizing environmentally unfriendly and outdated production technology. (references)
Economic History	Switzerland	Provided their shares are not quoted on the stock exchange, Swiss companies may in their articles of incorporation impose certain restrictions on the transfer of registered shares to prevent unfriendly takeovers by domestic or foreign companies (article 685a of the Code of Obligations). (references)
Trade	Netherlands	These products fall under the categories of strategic goods or environmentally unfriendly items. (references)
Travel	Czech Rep	This can create a false impression that Czechs are cold or unfriendly. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RENOWN, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame -- a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand. I touched the harp in every key, But found no heeding ear; And then Ithuriel touched me With a revealing spear. Not all my genius, great as 'tis, Could urge me out of night. I felt the faint appulse of his, And leapt into the light! W.J. Candleton
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
John McCain	Well, you've got a situation where the terrain is the most unfriendly, perhaps, of any place in the world, though you might argue that triple canopy jungle in Vietnam is just as difficult. But it is one of the most difficult.
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"Unfriendly" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unfriendly" is used about 194 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	194	22,014

Expression using "unfriendly": unfriendly attitude. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "unfriendly": mtv-unfriendly, radio-unfriendly, reader-unfriendly, spectator-unfriendly, user-unfriendly, woman-unfriendly.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unfriendly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		armiqësor (adverse, antagonistic, antisocial, at sword's points, chill, chilly, enemy, enemy's, forbidding, hostile, inimical, opponent, subversive), antipatik (antipathetic, antipathetical, objectionable, uncongenial, unlovely). (various references)

Arabic		‏فاتر (apathetic, chilly, cold, cool, disinterested, dispassionate, dull, frigid, half hearted, indifferent, languid, listless, lukewarm, slack, spiritless, stagnant, tepid, unenthusiastic), ‏معاد (antagonistic, black, hostile, inimical, iterative, opposite, repeated), ‏غير ملائم (awkward, awkwardly, clumsy, disadvantageous, inadequate, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incommensurate, inconvenient, inept, unfortunate, unhandy, unseemly, unsuitable, untidy, untimely), ‏غير ودي (distant, hostile, inimical, snide), ‏بارد (bleak, boring, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, raw, silly, wintry). (various references)

Bulgarian		враждебен (adverse, aggressive, hostile, ill, inimical, irreconcilable, opponent, opposing, rancorous, sullen), неблагосклонен (unagreeable, unfavorable, unfavourable), недружелюбен (frosty, unneighborly, unneighbourly). (various references)

Chinese		不友好. (various references)

Czech		zlomyslný (bitchy, catty, despiteful, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, spiteful, unkind, vicious), nevlídný (dismal, gruff, inclement, rugged, sour, stern, surly, testy, uncongenial, unfriended, unkind), nepohostinný (inhospitable), nepřívìtivý (uncongenial, ungracious, unpleasant), nepřátelský (adverse, enemy's, hostile, inimical). (various references)

Dutch		overval (hasp, hostile takeover bid, looting raid(by thieves), undesired take-over, unfriendly takeover bid). (various references)

Finnish		epäystävällinen (unkind). (various references)

French		inamical, hostile, froid, défavorable (unfavorable, unfavourable, unpropitious). (various references)

German		unfreundlich (cheerless, cold, forbidding, inclement, standoffish, unaffable, uncharitable, uncordial, uncourteous, ungracious, ungraciously, unhelpful, unkind, unkindly, unneighborly, unpleasant, unpleasantly), unholde. (various references)

Greek		εχθρικόσ (enemy, hostile, inimical, malevolent), δυσμενήσ (adverse, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malign, unfavorable, unfavourable, unpropitious). (various references)

Hebrew		לא י�"י�"ותי (disaffected), עוין (hostile, ill disposed, inimical). (various references)

Hungarian		rideg (austere, brittle, brusque, burly, cold, crabby, hard, impassible, rigid, severe, short, unkind), barátságtalan (austere, chilly, cold, crabby, disagreeable, disgruntled, doggish, gaunt, gruff, ill natured, inhospitable, pouty, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, unaccommodating, unaffable, unkind). (various references)

Italian		ostile (adverse, disaffected, forbidding, hostile, inimical). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		疎疎しい . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		うとうとしい. (various references)

Manx		sthoagh (inaffable), neuchaarjagh, anchaarjoil, anchaarjagh (antagonistic). (various references)

Pig Latin		iendlyunfray

Portuguese		pouco amigo, pouco amável (unkind), inamistoso, impróprio de amigo, hostil (adverse, antipathic, hostile, ill disposed, inimical, opposite, uncongenial, warring). (various references)

Romanian		nepriincios, neprietenos (chill, glacial, hostile, manner), neprietenesc, nefavorabil (adverse, bad, disadvantageous, foul, ill disposed, ill-affected, ill-omened, unfavorable, unfavourable, unpropitious), dezagreabil (disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, unpleasant). (various references)

Russian		неблагоприятный (adverse, baffling, contrary, disadvantageous, inauspicious, inimical, none to bright, none too bright, sinister, unauspicious, unfavorable, unfavourable, unpropitious, untoward, worst case, worst-case), недружелюбный (antisocial, disaffected, ill disposed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neprijateljski (adverse, enemy, hostile, ill, inimical), nenaklonjen (undisposed, unfavorable, unfavourable, unpropitious, unwilling), neljubazan (disagreeable, disobliging, thoughtless, unaffable, unkind, unobliging), nedrugarski. (various references)

Spanish		poco amistoso. (various references)

Swedish		ovänlig (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, sour, sullen, surly, ungracious, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Turkish		sokulgan olmayan (uncompanionable, unsociable, unsocial), soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unsympathetic, wintry), dostça olmayan (unamiable), düşmanca (hostile, inhospitably, like an enemy, unkind, virulent). (various references)

Ukrainian		несприятливий (adverse, bad, baffling, contrary, cross, impervious, inauspicious, non-contributory, unfavorable, unfavourable, untoward), недружелюбний (antisocial, ill disposed). (various references)

Vietnamese		không thuận lợi (unprosperous, untoward), không thân thiện cừu địch bất lợi, không thân mật (distant). (various references)

Welsh		anghyfeillgar. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abalienati, inimica, inimice, inimici, inimicis, inimico, inimicorum, inimicos, inimicum, inimicus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Misspellings
	"Unfriendly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ungreenly, untrendy. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unfriendly" (pronounced unfre"ndlē)
7	-f r e" n d l ē	friendly.
4	-n d l ē	blandly, blindly, fondly, grandly, kindly, profoundly, roundly, secondly, soundly.
3	-d l ē	absurdly, acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, gladly, godly, goodly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, niggardly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, shrewdly, solidly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, thirdly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-l-n-n-r-u-y"
	-2 letters: friendly, unrifled.
	-3 letters: direful, flinder, funnier, funnily, innerly, inurned, reunify, unfired, unlined.
	-4 letters: dinner, direly, dunlin, dunner, dynein, endrin, finder, finely, finery, finned, fleury, friend, funned, funnel, funner, furled, inured, ireful, linden, lineny, lunier, nudely, nurled, redfin, refind, refund, ridley, rifely, rifled, rudely, ruined, rundle, runnel, undine.
	-5 letters: deify, diner, drily, dynel, edify, elfin.
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