Synonyms for unfriendly
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Hostile
hostile, inhospitable, unkind, antagonistic, cold, unfavorable US, unfavourable UK, warlike, hard, adverse, uncongenial, repugnant
Other
inimical, ungracious, chilly, dour, cool, disaffected, uncordial, unneighborly US, unneighbourly UK, unamiable, unamicable, ungenial
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not friendly; hostile; mean.
Related words
- Word family
- unfriendliness
Example sentences
- hostile The Soviet Union took a hostile attitude toward us.
- antagonistic The two countries are antagonistic to each other.
- unkind I would not want her to remember me with unkind words.
- inhospitable The surface of Mars is a challenging and inhospitable place.
- chilly This was in the dead of October, chilly and windy.
- dour Tom's dour silence said more than any words could.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unfriendly | steady | |
| hostile | steady | |
| antagonistic | steady | |
| unkind | rising | |
| inhospitable | rising | |
| chilly | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- hard1, cool1, cold1, dour2
- 6 letters
- chilly2, unkind2
- 7 letters
- hostile2, adverse2, warlike2
- 8 letters
- inimical4, ungenial
- 9 letters
- repugnant3, uncordial, unamiable
- 10 letters
- ungracious, unamicable
- 11 letters
- unfavorable5, disaffected4, uncongenial
- 12 letters
- antagonistic5, inhospitable5, unfavourable, unneighborly
- 13 letters
- unneighbourly
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dour2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inamical