unfriendly

Meanings

Adjective

• Not friendly; hostile; mean.
• Unfavourable.

Noun

• An enemy.

Adverb

• in an unkind or unfriendly manner; not as a friend

Related

Opposite words

• friendly

Origin

• From Middle English unfrendly, unfrendli, unfrendely, from Old English *unfrēondlīċ (suggested by derivative unfrēondlīċe), equivalent to . Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunfrüntelk, uunfjuntelk, West Frisian ûnfreonlik, Dutch onvriendelijk, German Low German unfrünnelk, German unfreundlich, Faroese ófryntligur, Icelandic ófrýnilegur.
• From Middle English unfrendli, from Old English unfrēondlīċe, equivalent to unfriend + -ly.